The Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Portland, Me. — I have in my col¬ 
lection a handsome adult female specimen of the Yellow-crowned Night 
Heron ( Nycticorax violaceus) which was shot on April 13, 1901, in Back 
Cove, Portland, Me. The captor was a boy. He took the bird to Mr. 
John A. Lord, the taxidermist, by whom it was mounted. I saw it 
immediately after it was preserved and also examined its body. Besides 
this evidence that it was taken here, I have the assurance of Mr. Lord, 
which alone would be sufficient. I believe the Yellow-crowned Night 
Heron has never before been recorded from this part of New England. — 
Henry H. Brock, Portland , Me. Aak, XIX, July, 1902, 
A Second Yellow-crowned Night Heron (,Nycticorax violaceus) at 
Portland, Maine. —A female of this species was shot at Thompsons Point, 
Portland, Me., April 11, 1906. It passed into the hands of Mr. Thomas 
James, foreman of the W. D. Hinds taxidermy establishment, and was 
obtained from him by Mr. Walter Rich, who very kindly gave it to the 
writer. The other specimen, also a female, was taken April 13, 1901, 
and recorded by Dr. H. H. Brock who now has it (Brock, Auk, XIX, p. 
285 ). Arthur H. Norton, Museum of Natural History, Portland, Me. 
AUK XXIU, Jr: , 19Q9, p . vi'7 
