240 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



85-201-(663). Ardea virescens Linn. Green Heron; Ply up the Creek. 



Common; "throughout the state" (A. H. Boies); summer resident; two killed 

 on College farm in May; "common at Ann Arbor" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "com- 

 mon at Albion and St. Joseph " (O. B. Warren); Mr. E. W. Durfee reports 

 finding a nest with three young in Allegan Co. in May, 1891; " common in Mon- 

 roe Co." (Jerome Trombley); "quite common at Port Sanilac" (W. A. Oldtield); 

 "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); found nesting at Plymouth by J. B. Purdy; 

 often quite tame; breeds; nests often in small colonies, as does the Great Blue 

 Heron, in May; eggs three to six, pale blue. There are several of these, taken 

 in Ionia Co., in the collection of Mr. Levi Broas. 



Genus NYCTICORAX Steph. 



80-202-(664). Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Bodd.). American Night Heron; 

 Black-crowned Night Heron; Squawk; Night Raven. 



Rare; taken on Chandler's marsh north of the College; " Southern Michigan " 

 (A. H. Boies) "rare in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley) "one taken at Forest- 

 ville and now mounted here. I have also seen it in the marshes at Black 

 River" (W. A. Oldfield); one taken in Lenawee Co. by Dr. W. C. Brownell; one 

 in collection of Levi Broas, taken in Ionia Co.; breeds; nests in June, in col- 

 onies, in trees; C. S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie writes me that there is a 

 great colony on Espanore Island at the mouth of St. Mary's River. The Indians 

 and fishermen eat the eggs. He has seen over one hundred nests there in the 

 birch and balsam trees, the same nests are used over and over year after year. 

 He adds these may possibly be the Great Blue Heron; eggs four, occasionally 

 five or six; "three or four" (L. S. Foster), bluish; young birds in autumn said 

 to be of good tlavor and prized for the table. 



87-^203-(665). \ycticorax violaceus (Linn.). Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



"A specimen taken by a taxidermist at Forestville, Sanilac County, and now 

 in his collection. I know of no other capture in Michigan " (W. A. Oldfield). 



Order PALUDICOLiE. Cranes; Rails, etc, 

 SuBORDEE GRUES. Cranes. 



Family GRUIDiE. Crane.s. 

 Fine robust birds; feed on rootlets, grasses, grains, reptiles, toads, frogs, etc. 



Genus GRU8 Pall. 



88-204-(668). Grus americaiia {Linn.}. Whooping Crane; White Crane. 



Very rare; probably accidental if it occurs at all; Covert says "very irregular 

 visitor at Ann Arbor; " " occasionally seen both singly and in flocks of ten or twelve 

 about marshes at Manchester, Washtenaw County, where it has been killed 

 repeatedly" (L. W. Watkins); were these not mistaken identifications? " they probably 

 were" (Dr. A. K. Fisher); Northern Indiana (Butler's Birds of Indiana). "Have 



