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ing to molest them. Mr. Abbott also 

 reports a colony in the vicinity of Mon- 

 tauk Point, Long Island, which may have 

 contained fifty nests. The character of 

 the nesting-place was such that even an 

 approximately accurate estimate was 

 rendered very difficult. Mr. Francis 

 Harper reports small colonies of five or 

 six birds each, scattered at intervals along 

 the south shore of Long Island; that a 

 group of nesting birds has been reported 

 to him from Walkill, Ulster County, New 

 York, and still another at Honeoye Lake, 

 near Rochester, New York. 



Mr. P. B. Philipp reports that in 1910 

 there was a large colony located in a 

 maple swamp near Great Neck, Long 

 Island, and not five miles from the 

 Roslyn colony. He does not attempt to 



estimate the number of birds. He also 

 reports a colony back of Greenwich, Con- 

 necticut, of which, however, he has no 

 particulars. 



Mr. Henry W. Shoemaker has recently 

 written the Association concerning a 

 nesting colony of Night Herons in a grove 

 of large trees at Greenwich Cove, near 

 Sound Beach, Connecticut. He states 

 that this year there were over 100 nests, 

 and that the birds need a guard to pro- 

 tect them, as the summer residents can- 

 not be restrained from occasionally taking 

 shots at them. Formerly, Great Blue 

 Herons and Bitterns existed here, but this 

 year a solitary Great Blue Heron appeared, 

 and no Bitterns. The Association intends 

 to make an effort to give adequate pro- 

 tection to this colony. 



NEST AND EGGS OF BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON IN ROOKKRV 

 ROSLYN, LONG ISLAND 

 Photographed by P. B. Philipp 



