. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. lis. This is a familiar Heron in Europe, and is very abundant in places where it is protected by law. In England most of its breeding places are guarded by land owners. In the middle ages when fal- conry was a favorite sport the bird was held as royal game, and penal enact- ments preserved it for the pleasure of royalty. Hagerup mentions this Heron as an occasional visitor in South Green- land. A skin which was from Gadthaab is in Benson's collection. It was taken in 1877. This Heron builds its nest ac- cording to ci
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. lis. This is a familiar Heron in Europe, and is very abundant in places where it is protected by law. In England most of its breeding places are guarded by land owners. In the middle ages when fal- conry was a favorite sport the bird was held as royal game, and penal enact- ments preserved it for the pleasure of royalty. Hagerup mentions this Heron as an occasional visitor in South Green- land. A skin which was from Gadthaab is in Benson's collection. It was taken in 1877. This Heron builds its nest ac- cording to circumstances, either on the ground, in trees, or on high rocks. It breeds in colonies, and its favorite nest- ing places are on the tops of trees, on the outer branches. The nest is large and flat, composed of sticks and lined with grass. Each year the nests are repaired and augmented until they be- come very massive. The eggs are four or five in number, of a pale green color, and measure Pour eggs from England in my collection measure , , , 196. AMERICAIJ" EGKET. Ardea egretta Gmel. Geog. Dist.—Temperate and tropical America, from New Jersey, Minnesota and Oregon, south to Patagonia; casually on the Atlantic coast to Nova Scotia. This beautiful species, the Great White Egret of America, has an extended dis- tribution, brgeding as far north on the Atlantic coast as New Jersey, on the Pacific coast to Oregon, and in the interior as far north as Southern Illinois. It breeds throughout South America to Patagonia, and is a resident on the Island of Trinidad. In the enormous rookeries of Florida this bird was formerly abundant, but of late years the "plume hunters" have wrought great destruction in their numbers. It is a bird of purest white, and during the breeding season has a magnificent train of silky plumes flowing from the back over the wings and drooping far beyond the tail. Our illustration of the European Grea
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