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45. BUTOKIDES VIRESCENS VIKESC'ENS ( LilinaniS ) . GREEN IIEROX (201) 



Summer resident ; more common than any other species of lieron. Found 

 not only along the river and all the smaller streams, hut also about ponds 

 and marshes. This interesting little heron, known locally as "shitepoke", 

 is more tolerant of civilization than the other species, and may freciuently he 

 seen about the farms; indeed. I have found it nesting in old apple trees not 

 far from farm buildings. It usually, however, places its nests in the tops of 

 small trees or bushes in thickets along the creek or river. 



In Carroll County it arrives from the south at least as early as April 30; 

 the first one noted by me in 1SS4 was seen on that date. Noted May 18. 

 1878. On May 13, 1884, my friend P'rank C. Porter obtained for me a set 

 of five eggs from a nest in the top of a small bush, perhaps 15 feet up. in 

 a dense thicket on the south bank of Deer Creek opposite the Porter mill 

 below Camden. Incubation had begun. Ai^ril 20. 1S85. got a pair near 

 Camden. One seen June 25. 1905. at a small pond on my father's farm near 

 Burlington. 



In Vigo County this little heron is not uncommon in sunuiier along the 

 Wabash and about the bayous and ponds. 



In Monroe County it is frequently seen. I have seen its nest in Turner's 

 grove of pines west of Bloomington. 



4(». Xycticorax XYCTicoRAx x.iovus (Boddiierti. 



ItLACK-CROWXED XIGHT IIEROX. (202) 



A rare spring and fall visitant, not often seen. A yovmg female shot near 

 Terre Haute. November l(i. 1889. by Mr. Ed. Stoop who presented it to me. 

 I have never seen the species in ^Monroe County. In Carroll County I have 

 seen it only on three occasions : the first being on April 30. 1878. when, late 

 in the evening. Master Charles Guard, one of Mrs. Evermann's students, 

 came to us in great excitement, saying that he had seen a very strange bird 

 at the Armstrong pond at the south edge of Camden. Taking m.v shotgun. 

 I went with him to the pond and found the strange bird sitting in an old 

 dead snag at the south edge of the pond. It was not easily frightened and a 

 charge of No. 10 shot brought it down. It proved to be an adult female 

 Black-crowned Night Heron in fine plumage, the first I had ever seen. Since 

 that day, I have seen many of this species in man.v different countries and 

 have collected many of them, together with their nests and eggs, but my 

 delight has never been greater than it was in the dusk of that A]>ril even- 

 ing 43 years ago. My next specimen in Carroll County was a younu; female 

 killed November 24, 1884, by my friend Matthew Sterling. The bird had 

 alighted in an apple tree on the Sterling farm, soutliwest of Camden. The 

 weather had been rather mild, for November, initil the 23d. when a heavy 

 rain which began the night before changed to snow. During the 24th it 

 was blustery, gradually growing colder until in the evening the temperature 

 was 6 degrees Fahrenheit. The bird acted as if lost. A third specimen was 

 killed near Camden about September 1. 1SS7. 



I have no Monroe County record of this species. 



