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In Knox and Gibson counties Mr. Robert Ridgway reported heronries 
and noted the breeding of the Great Blue Heron, the Snowy Heron and 
the American Egret. 
The American Egret, according to Mr. E. J. Chansler, breeds about 
Swan and Grassy Ponds, Daviess county. 
Dr. J. T. Scovell reports that up to about 1881 or 1882 an extensive 
heronry of the American Egret was to be found in the Wabash bottoms 
about a mile west of Terre Haute. 
Mr. J. F. Elliott, of New Harmony, informs me of a heronry at Hovey’s 
Pond, Posey county, Indiana. 
There is no record of any heronries in southeastern Indiana, but Dr. 
F. W. Langdon reports the Great Blue Heron as breeding along the Great 
Miami River, and in the neighboring parts of Ohio. Great Blue Herons 
have been reported as breeding in communities about ten miles south of 
Frankfort, in Clinton county, where they were noted by Mr. E. R. Quick, 
A small colony has also bred regularly at the mouth of the Tippecanoe 
River, above Lafayette, but when it was visited in May, 1897, but one or 
two pairs were found as lone remnants of the former community. 
In Carroll county, Prof. B. W. Evermann speaks of two large heron- 
ries and one small one. He found as many as thirteen nests on one tree 
at one place and many other trees contained from three to ten nests each. 
(The Auk, October, 1888, p. 347). They are also reported to have formerly 
bred in colonies in Dekalb county, and investigation may show that they 
still do so. 
Prof. A. W. Bitting reports a small heronry of about one hundred nests 
in southern Marshall county, on an island in the Tippecanoe River, at a 
locality called the Millpond. These were Great Blue Herons and he saw 
them in 1891. The same observer informs me that up to about 1890 there 
was a heronry of twenty-five or thirty nests of the American Egret in the 
Preston Swamp, in the same county, about two miles north of the one he 
first mentions. 
There is a heronry of Great Blue Herons at Golden Lake, in Steuben 
county, and one at Wolf Lake, in Noble county, at each of which, accord- 
ing to Mr. H. W. McBride, occasional pairs of American Egrets have been 
found breeding. ; 
Mr. R. B. Trouslot wrote me of a visit he made to “Cranetown,” in 
Jasper county, in April, 1887. At that time he estimated there were thou- 
sands of Great Blue Herons nesting, and he saw a few American Egrets. 
