Plate 41 



Upper: Nesting site of snowy egrets, nests in small trees and bushes. 



Lower: Nest and eggs of snowy egret, in a prickly pear cactus. Both pho- 

 tographs taken by the author on an islantl in Galveston Bay, Texas, May 5, 1923, 

 referred to on page 148. 

 42G 



