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Mr. Ruthven Deane has favored me with several notes on a heronry 
called “‘Crane Heaven,” near English Lake, Starke county, which, on 
March 18, 1894, he described as being occupied almost exclusively by 
Great Blue Herons, though quite a number of Black Crowned Night 
Herons always breed there. : 
Mr. Charles Dury, Cincinnati, has also informed me of a heronry at 
English Lake, which may be the same one. 
Mr. J. G. Parker, Jr., of Chicago, informs me of a large colony of 
Great Blue Herons on the Kankakee River, nine miles south of Kouts, 
Indiana, where, on April 14, 1894, he reports the heronries filled with birds 
nesting. I am indebted to Mr. Parker, and also to Mr. F. M. Woodruff, 
of the Chicago Academy of Science, for notes furnished me concerning 
heronies in Porter county, Indiana. The accounts given refer to different 
dates, but whether the locality referred to is the same I am at present 
unable to say. Mr. Woodruff says that Mr. Charles Eldridge found the 
American Egret breeding at Kouts, Indiana, in May, 1885, and took a 
large number of their eggs. He found their nests in the same trees with 
those of the Great Blue Heron. He concludes: “I visited the heronries 
last June, 1896, and did not see a single specimen of the American Egret. 
In the fall of 1895 a terrible fire swept through the timber along the 
Kankakee River, which probably accounts for the depopulated state of 
the heronries.” 
Mr. Parker says Mr. George Wilcox found quite a number of Ameri- 
can Egrets breeding in a heronry with the Great Blue Heron, near Kouts, 
Indiana, during May, 1895. Mr. Parker himself visited the place in the 
spring of 1896 and found only a few of the latter species occupying the 
heronry. He thinks the small number of birds found was due to the fact 
that a heavy fire swept through the timber in the fall of 1895. 
Mr. C. E. Aiken, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who has made many valuable 
observations on the birds of northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana, 
as well as of Colorado, has very kindly given me an account of a visit to 
a heronry known as “Crane Heaven,” occupying thirty or forty acres along 
the Kankakee River, some twenty miles above Water Valley. The time 
of his visit was in May, 1886. He says: “The locality is a timbered plot 
of ground, being submerged with twelve to eighteen inches of water at 
the time of our visit. At our approach, upon the discharge of a gun, the 
birds rose with a noise like thunder and hovered in hundreds above the 
