BULLETIN No. 36 



side, and 4.00 inches on the other, with a width of 3.50 inches. 

 The remainder of the nest was composed of small feathers and 

 lichens, made compactly together, with a few straggling horse 

 hairs worked in near the bottom. 



Although I have read descriptions of the nests of this bird, 

 in which they were described as being fastened to the upright 

 twigs of trees, I have never observed any in such positions. 

 All which I have found in our woods, were saddled upon 

 horizontal limbs, often on the highest branches, but never on 

 the upright growth of a tree, 



ROBERT Windsor Smith, Kirkwood, DeKalb Co., Ga. 



Little Blue-Heron, Ardea avnilea. — An immature fe- 

 male was brought to me on August 6th, by Mr. William Wayne, 

 3rd, who secured it at a mill dam on Crum creek, about three 

 miles southeast of Berwyn. it is pure white with the excep- 

 tion of the tips of its primeries, and measures: length, 22.00; 

 wing 10.10; tarsus, 4.00; bill, 2.84, in inches. Mr. Wayne in- 

 formed me that two birds were seen, but one tlew too high tor 

 a second shot. 1 believe this is the only record for Chester 

 county, and it appears to have always been quite rare in Penn- 

 sylvania. Dr. Warren mentions "two or three taken in the 

 southeastern part of the State," one of which, a young bird, 

 was taken in August, 1875. Unfortunately the rumers of 

 several other "White Herons" seen or shot in this neighbor- 

 hood in a dozen years, have not been followed up. 



Frank L. Burns, "Bemyu, Pa. 



Colony of Black-crowned Night Herons, Nycti- 

 corax nycticorax ncevins. — Some years ago I visited a breeding 

 ground of this species, situated a quarter to a half mile from 

 water, near Columbia. The nests — which were often mere 

 platforms of sticks and twigs — were placed well up and w-ell out 

 on the branches. Several sets of eggs were taken at a height 

 of from sixty-three to seventy-five feet in chestnut trees. As 

 man\- as five nests counted in a single tree. 



Lionel F. Bowers, Columbia, Penna. 



