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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s have eith-er all been killed or have given thiscounty the farewell. During the early spring there wasmuch complaint, it being declared thatthe aliens were nipping off fruit buds,also that they were driving nativesong birds from the state, or slaugh-tering them, and Mr. Herron commenc-ed a campaign, which has resulted inentirely exterminating the pest.—SanBernardino Sun. The Great Blue Heron.(Ardea herodias). The group of this splendid birdillustrated on the opposite page hasbeen presented to the Buffalo Societyof Natural Sciences by me. It tookseveral years of hard work, aided bymy son, Edward, to get the materialfor the same. The Heronry is aboutfifty miles north of Buffalo, locatednear the Tonawanda Swamp and onlya fearless climber could get to thenests, which are located on elms fromone hundred to one hundred twentyfeet up; a hard task when higher thanthe nests to haul up the kodak andtake the ))ictures of the nests contain-ing eggs in sets from four to six, and 16 THE OOLOGIST
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THE OOLOGIST ^tC^^^.VCW 17 two months later of the young. TheHerons arrive here from the South inthe first days of April and start atonce to look over their previous nests,repairing and strengthening them fortheir occupancy. In the middle ofApril they start laying eggs. Abouta month later, the young appear andnow the work of getting nourishmentfor them is no easy matter. They haveto fly as far as fifty miles, and canbe seen near Grand Island and NavyIsland standing in Niagara River,watching foi- fish, with which they re-turn to thp young to satisfy their rav-enous appetites. The long flight isnecessary because it is impossible forthem to get down to the ground in theheronry on account of the ilense shrub-bery. A continuous croaking of the oldbirds is heard. it takes fully fromtwo to two and a half months untilthe young can take care of themselves,and to bring them down out cf theirnests is no easy problem. The bark of these elms is from oneto one and a quarter inches thick,making it n

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