Annual report . than tarsus; general colorbluish plumbeous striped above with black; top of head and elongated patchon its side white, rest of head black; bill black; lores greenish; eyes : Similar in color to the young of the preceding species, but the top of the head is blackish,marked with buffy white, andthe quills slate color without ru-fous markings. The generalcolor is somewhat darker. Length 22-27 inches; ex-tent 44; wing —; tail 5;bill , depth at base .;tarsus 5-4 ; tibia bare 2 ;middle toe and claw The home of this species isin tropical and aus
Annual report . than tarsus; general colorbluish plumbeous striped above with black; top of head and elongated patchon its side white, rest of head black; bill black; lores greenish; eyes : Similar in color to the young of the preceding species, but the top of the head is blackish,marked with buffy white, andthe quills slate color without ru-fous markings. The generalcolor is somewhat darker. Length 22-27 inches; ex-tent 44; wing —; tail 5;bill , depth at base .;tarsus 5-4 ; tibia bare 2 ;middle toe and claw The home of this species isin tropical and austral America,north to Illinois and North Caro-lina, straggling northward as faras Nova Scotia. It is one of therarest of herons in New YorkState. Giraud and DeKay giveno definite records and evidentlytook its occurrence for Linden in the BuffaloList, page 7, speaks of it in thesame indefinite terms. Mr Tru-man R. Taylor of Y., writes that he examineda specimen killed several years. Yellow-crowned night heron (Linnaeus). From specimen in State Museum. Nyctanassa violacea ? nat. size BIRDS OF NEW YORK 267 ago at Long Pond, Monroe co.; and Mr Arthur Babson that he took aspecimen at Bellport, L. I. in 1897. The only specimen recorded by MrDutcher [see Auk, 10: 266] was killed at Freeport, L. I., in April specimen was taken at Wading river in April 1901 by A. Hoff-man and is now in the collection of Arthur H. Helme [Braislin, Birds ,p. 54]. A fourth Long Island specimen was taken at Orient in the fallabout 1892 and is owned by Dr Henry Heath of Brookhn [Braislin, Auk,24: 187]. A fifth was observed at Orient, May 4-7, 1905, by Roy Latham[Braislin, loc. cit.\ Order PALUDICOLAE Marsh Birds Orders Ralliformes and Gruiformes, Sharpes Hand-List This polymorphic and unsatisfactory group includes several extra- limital families of widely divergent characters. In North America it is represented by two suborders, the Grues, or Cranelike birds, a
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