. Bird-lore . f a country, it is as if new andkeener eyes were added. (Sharp Eyes, John Burroughs.)—A. H. W. The Audubon Societies 163 FOR AND FROM ADULT AND YOUNGOBSERVERS THE BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON (Nycticorax nycticorax naevius)By ■WILLIAM GOULD VINAL, The Rhode Island Normal School A METHOD OF STUDYI. SUBJECT MATTER. The Black-crowned Night Heron is known more commonly when called by one ofits nicknames: Squawk, Quawk, or Qua Bird. In some of the southern states it isknown as Gros-bec, Indian Hen, or Indian Pullet. The bird receives the first of theseappellations from its call as it fli
. Bird-lore . f a country, it is as if new andkeener eyes were added. (Sharp Eyes, John Burroughs.)—A. H. W. The Audubon Societies 163 FOR AND FROM ADULT AND YOUNGOBSERVERS THE BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON (Nycticorax nycticorax naevius)By ■WILLIAM GOULD VINAL, The Rhode Island Normal School A METHOD OF STUDYI. SUBJECT MATTER. The Black-crowned Night Heron is known more commonly when called by one ofits nicknames: Squawk, Quawk, or Qua Bird. In some of the southern states it isknown as Gros-bec, Indian Hen, or Indian Pullet. The bird receives the first of theseappellations from its call as it flies to and from its hunting-ground late in the afternoonor at night. Longfellow gives the proper setting, in Evangeline, when he says,Deathlike the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the heronsHome to their roosts in the cedar trees returning at Black-crowned is the most abundant and familiar of the Heron family. Alarge colony of these birds has a breeding-ground on Cape Cod, not far from Camp. YELLOW-CROW NKl) AM) [SLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERONSFrom Specimens in the Arnold Biological Laboratory, Brown University Chequesset, a girls camp, where the writer had frequent opportunity to visit the her-onry and to upon the birds with the camera. This particular colony is in apitch-pine grove which is located near a marsh. If one enters the rookery in daytime—which is usually bedtime for this species—he finds things rather quiet until discovered. The invader is then serenaded with agreat din. The parents fly into the air, squawking and cackling promiscuously. Blanchanlikens it to pandemonium, and Wilson compares the noise with that of two or threehundred Indians choking or throtthng each other. Such is the heralding as one entersthe sanctum sanctorum of herondom. The housekeeping is no more inviting than the notes of greeting. The groundand trees are white with excrement, and a foul odor comes from decomposing pieces 164 Bird - Lore of fish which have fall
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