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No living specimens were seen, but there is a mounted bird in the Agri- 

 cultural College Museum at Fargo with no data. 



Mr. Williams, of Grafton, says it is very rare and he has seen but one, 

 near Glasston, Pembina County, during the past twenty-five years. 



57. Ixobrychus ncoxcnus (Cory). Cory's Least Bittern. 



Mr. Alfred Eastgate is authority for a record of this form, at Graliam's 

 Island, Devils Lake, 1904. 



58. Ardca herodlas hcrodias Linnieus. Great Blue Heron. 



CouES, 1878, p. 646; observed during passage down the Red River in 1873. 

 Allen, 1875, p. 67; a single specimen seen on Heart River, the only representative 

 of the family noted on the journey. Hoffman, 1882, p. 403; singly or in pairs this 

 species occurs along the Missouri River during the early portion of September ; 

 none noticed after the tenth. Judd, 1917, p. 11; rare; only now^ and then seen in 

 recent years ; breeds in the Turtle Mountains. 



The species seems to be quite uncommon in the state. There is a mounted 

 specimen in the Biological Station Museum probably taken near Devils Lake. 

 The Williams Collection contains one labelled Grafton, September 30, 1920. 

 One in the Olsen Collection was collected at Medora in the summer of 1920. 

 On August 2 and August 4, 1920, a family of four were seen at Lake Upsi- 

 lon, Turtle Mountains. 



59. Nycticorax nyc'Hcorax naevius (Boddaert). Black-crowned Night Heron. 



CouES, 1878, p. 646; one individual seen during the passage down the Red River, 

 in 1873. Bryant, 1894, P- 183; colony at Lake Alice, Ramsey County, in the spring 

 of 1892. Judd, 1917, p. 11; tolerably common, breed in colonies in trees about Lake 

 Alice, also in heavy grass sloughs and thick bushes at Rock Lake. Earliest arrivals, 

 April 13. 



A set of six eggs in the Museum of Zoology Collection was taken at 

 Sweetwater Lake, Ramsey County, on May 31, 1896, by E. S. Bryant. 



They were not rare about Twin Lakes, Ramsey County, August 18, 1920, 

 and later were seen at Devils Lake and a small mud pond on the Rock Island 

 Military Reservation. 



60. Grus ainericaim (Linnseus). Whooping Crane. 



CouES, 1878, p. 646; white cranes were frequently observed in the Mouse River 

 country in August, September, and October, but always at a distance ; there is no 

 reason to doubt that they breed there. Abbott, 1880, p. 984; a flock of three were 

 met July 6, 1879, near Pembina. Hoffman, 1882, p. 404; frequently seen flying' north- 

 ward about the middle of September at Fort Berthold, McLean County, North 

 Dakota. Judd, 1891, p. 169; saw white cranes October 5, 1890, near Cando. CouES, 

 1893, p. 267; April II, 1805, Lewis and Clark record seeing some cranes, the largest 

 bird of that kind common to the Missouri and Mississippi, perfectly white, except 

 the large feathers on the first joint of the wing, which are black, just above the 

 mouth of the Little Missouri River in McLean County. Thwaites, 1906, p. 183 ; on 

 September 22, 1833, Maximilian saw a small flock of whooping cranes near Fort 

 Union. Judd, 1917, p. 11; tolerably common migrant, probably nests in the Turtle 

 Mountains; earliest arrivals, April 13. 



Mr. Russell Reid, of Bismarck, reports one shot near Leroy, Pembina 

 County, fall of 1919; two small flocks seen at Bismark, one September 16, 

 1920, and the other April 8, 1922. 



