120 MARSH AND SWAMP BIRDS. 



No. 128. GREEN HERON, 



Species: A. virescens. 



Distribution: 



A summer resident of New England. 



Date of Arrival: 

 First of May. 



Date of Departure: 

 September. 



General Plumage: 



Upper parts green, grayish blue, white and buff, crown and 

 eye marking greenish black, other parts of head chestnut ; 

 under parts grayish or buflf", throat whitish, front of neck 

 lined with white and blackish. Immature paler, blackish 

 streaked below, back lacking bluish gray. Bill black above, 

 yellow below, feet and legs yellow. Length about 17.00. 



Song and Other Notes: 

 A squawk. 



Haunts: 



Marshes and ponds, a solitary bird. 



