. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . color is a bluish gray, reliev-ed by a black crest, primaries and patches on thesides, and a white crown. In the south they breedin large colonies, often in company with manyother species. In the northern portions of theirrange they breed singly or in companies of undera hundred individuals. They generally placetheir rude platforms of sticks well up in trees,near ponds, swamps or rivers, but in the mostnortherly parts of their range, where tr
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . color is a bluish gray, reliev-ed by a black crest, primaries and patches on thesides, and a white crown. In the south they breedin large colonies, often in company with manyother species. In the northern portions of theirrange they breed singly or in companies of undera hundred individuals. They generally placetheir rude platforms of sticks well up in trees,near ponds, swamps or rivers, but in the mostnortherly parts of their range, where trees arescarce, they often build on the ground. Unlessthey are disturbed, they return to the same breed-ing grounds, vear after year. They lay from three to five eggs of a greenishblue color. Size Data.—Duck Island, Maine, May 2d. L883. Threeeggs. Nest of sticks and twigs, about fifteen feet from the ground. B. Gray. i;)l;i. Northwest Coast Heron. Ardea herodias fannini. This darker sub-species of the breeding is found along the Pacific coast,north to Sitka, Alaska. Its nests and eggs do not differ from the eal White Heron 1 ;>. 11 Blue 1 [eron
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