278 :BIRD FRIENDS 



of various kinds. Mr. Herbert K. Job, who recently 

 visited this heronry, writes : — 



Several days were spent at Avery Island, Louisiana, 

 where I was most kindly entertained by Mr. E. A. Mc- 

 Ilhenny, whose astounding .colony, artificially built up, 

 of forty thousand snowy egrets, herons, and other water 

 birds, attracted to his overflowed garden, might well be 

 considered "the eighth wonder of the world." 



