On 4 July 1976 William T. Everett, Curtis Stuteville and I discovered an adult Little Blue Heron (Egretta {=Florida} caerulea) near the mouth of the New River at the south end of the Salton Sea, Imperial County. This bird was perching in an area of drowned trees along the shore of the Sea. The Little Blue Heron was similar in size and shape to the several Snowy Egrets (E. thula) available for comparison nearby, but without any bushiness to the head, so the head appeared smaller and the neck narrower. The neck was held tightly against the body when the bird was perching. The entire body posterior to the neck was bluish-gray, darker than the body color of nearby Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias). The head and neck were deep purplish-gray, contrastingly darker than the rest of the body. The bill was distinctly bicolored; medium gray basally, blackish distally. The legs and feet were dark.