BIRD COLLECTING 125 
necessary studies and collections. On the arrival of our expedition 
every facility for our work in the way of transportation, guides and 
other necessaries was accorded us. 
When the ground in which the rookery is situated was acquired by the 
CYPRESSES IN WHICH THE EGRETS NEST 
The blind from which the birds were studied may be seen in the 
upper right-hand corner of the picture 
club now owning it, plume hunters had nearly exterminated the aigrette- 
bearing Herons which formerly inhabited it in large numbers. A few 
had escaped, and after seven years of protection they have formed one 
