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of that conspicuous and striking species, the Great White 

 Heron, — the largest heron of North America, a species 

 which Audubon here discovered and named, — were perched 



YOUNG GREAT WHITE HERON 



suggestively on the trees. But as the guide was in a hurry 

 to get home, we postponed our landing there, and kept on 

 toward a point on the distant Florida main, about ten miles 

 east of Cape Sable. 



