. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . eaters,ruining large quantities of the soft wheat in the north and tfsingthe southern rice fields even worse.—Editor. The Little Green Heron. This handsome small Heron is fre-quently found in the neighborhood of Buffalo. It arrives from the south inthe latter part of April and duringthe first week in May. It does notseem to assemble in large colonieslike the Great Blue Heron. In a smallstrip of woods near marshy groundor along the creeks you can find apair or two. This spring was an ex-ception. In one locality we locat
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . eaters,ruining large quantities of the soft wheat in the north and tfsingthe southern rice fields even worse.—Editor. The Little Green Heron. This handsome small Heron is fre-quently found in the neighborhood of Buffalo. It arrives from the south inthe latter part of April and duringthe first week in May. It does notseem to assemble in large colonieslike the Great Blue Heron. In a smallstrip of woods near marshy groundor along the creeks you can find apair or two. This spring was an ex-ception. In one locality we locatedabout 12 or 15 nests in a woods cov-ering about 10 acres of ground. Thenests are loose affairs. A few smalltwigs to form a platform so that thehandsome pale blue eggs can be eas-ily seen from below. They buildtheir nests from 5 to 25 feet from theground. The accompanying picturewas taken of a nest about 5 feet fromthe ground. They are some timesvery difficult to get, the saplings notbein g sufficiently strong to carry the 168 THE OOLOGIST. te&O / \°M. Photo by and Eggs of Green Heron. weight of a young Oologist. Wehave taken sets of 4, 5 and 6 nest very irregularly. On June lGth, we found a perfectfresh set of five eggs, and within 20feet of this nest we found a nest with4 eggs highly incubated. Both ofthe old birds have to hustle to sup-ply their young with food. When dis-turbed they utter a coarse quakwhich can be heard some distanceaway. It is a novel sight to see thefledglings stand in the nest with everhungry and open mouths. We intendto take a nest of young to Buffaloand give it to the Zoo. They mustbe easy to keep there. All the GreatBlue Herons in the Buffalo Park Zoohave been donated by us. ED. REINECKE, Buffalo, N. Y. The Bobolink. In Canada, especially in this local-ity, the Bobolink is an abundantbreeder. The birds arrive here fromthe south about May 10th, the fe-males generally being a few days be-hind the males. During the lastweek in
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