. British birds. Birds. r. the water C. SELOUS : NESTING HABITS. 79 They were exactly like the nests of Purple Herons I have taken in Spain and Hungary. The eggs in both nests of Great White Herons were very light in colour, as light in fact as the eggs of Buff-backed ,;,, i --^^-^:. i-HSP^i A Nesting-place of the Great White Heron in Central Hungary. The Hungarian fishermen who took us into the reed-bed in their small flat-bottomed boats told us that the Great White Herons never nested in colonies, but that the nests were always some distance one from another. It is, however, I think
. British birds. Birds. r. the water C. SELOUS : NESTING HABITS. 79 They were exactly like the nests of Purple Herons I have taken in Spain and Hungary. The eggs in both nests of Great White Herons were very light in colour, as light in fact as the eggs of Buff-backed ,;,, i --^^-^:. i-HSP^i A Nesting-place of the Great White Heron in Central Hungary. The Hungarian fishermen who took us into the reed-bed in their small flat-bottomed boats told us that the Great White Herons never nested in colonies, but that the nests were always some distance one from another. It is, however, I think, quite possible that, in countries where these birds are still numerous and unmolested, they may breed in colonies like other species of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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