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(400) of these birds would congregate each day for about a 

 week, when the number began to diminish — but I am glad to 

 say not from the hunter's gun, for they left in small flocks, 

 never more than thirty, which did not make their exit so 

 marked. 



' ' On Sunday I found an old man who had found a wounded 

 heron early in the season, and now he has made quite a pet of 

 it, and while the bird is now able to fly from careful nursing, it 

 makes no eiJort to escape and seems entirely content with its 

 new surroundings. The old man says he would not part with 

 the heron for $25.00, for it hops about his shanty and makes 

 him company. He also told me that the Heron will fly off for 

 two hours sometimes, but returns with a morsel of food it can- 

 not procure around the cabin. 

 ' ' Yours very truly, 



(Signed) " Albert M. Barnes." 



"Atlantic City, N. J., October 23, 1902. 



* * * " During the time the A. coenilea are here I am very 

 busy with other work. To my knowledge the above-named 

 species has been noticed here on the meadows for the last three 

 or four years. They make their appearance about the last week 

 in July or beginning of August, and generally stay about two or 

 three weeks. Last year (1901) they were more numerous than 

 at any other time. 



I never found them breeding here in Jersey. In 1872 I found 

 quite a large colony of A. candidisshna breeding in the neigh- 

 borhood where Ocean City is now located. I counted as high 

 as eight or ten nests on one tree. I secured some magnificent 

 specimens of birds and also nests and eggs, which are now in 

 the collection of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. There 

 were also a few sets of A. virescens, but no sign of the Little 

 Blue Heron {A. coerulea). * * * 

 Respectfully, 



(Signed) W. H. Werner. 



