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45. BUTORIDES VIRESCENS VIRESCENS (Linnweus). GREEN HERON (201) 
Summer resident ; more common than any other species of heron. Found 
not only along the river and all the smaller streams, but also about ponds 
and marshes. This interesting little heron, known locally as “shitepoke”, 
is more tolerant of civilization than the other species, and may frequently be 
seen about the farms; indeed, I have found it nesting in old apple trees not 
far from farm buildings. It usually, however. places its nests in the tops of 
small trees or bushes in thickets along the creek or river. 
In Carroll County it arrives from the south at least as early as April 30; 
the first one noted by me in 1884 was seen on that date. Noted May 18. 
1878. On May 13, 1884, my friend Frank C. Porter obtained for me a set 
of five eggs from a nest in the top of a small bush, perhaps 15 feet up, in 
a dense thicket on the south bank of Deer Creek opposite the Porter mill 
below Camden. Incubation had begun. April 29, 1885, got a pair near 
Camden. One seen June 25, 1905. at a small pond on my father’s farm near 
Burlington. 
In Vigo County this little heron is not uncommon in summer along the 
Wabash and about the bayous and ponds. 
In Monroe County it is frequently seen. I have seen its nest in Turner’s 
grove of pines west of Bloomington. 
46. NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX N-EVIUS (Boddaert). 
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON. (202) 
A rare spring and fall visitant, not often seen. A young female shot near 
Terre Haute, November 16, 1889, by Mr. Ed. Stoop who presented it to me. 
I have never seen the species in Monroe County. In Carroll County I have 
seen it only on three occasions; the first being on April 30, 1S7S. when, late 
in the evening, Master Charles Guard, one of Mrs. Evermann’s students, 
came to us in great excitement, saying that he had seen a very strange bird 
at the Armstrong pond at the south edge of Camden. Taking my shotgun, 
I went with him to the pond and found the strange bird sitting in an old 
dead snag at the south edge of the pond. It was not easily frightened and a 
charge of No. 10 shot brought it down. It proved to be an adult female 
Black-crowned Night Heron in fine plumage, the first I had ever seen. Since 
that day, I have seen many of this species in many different countries and 
have collected many of them, together with their nests and eggs. but my 
delight has never been greater than it was in the dusk of that April even- 
ing 45 years ago. My next specimen in Carrell County was a young female 
killed November 24, 1884, by my friend Matthew Sterling. The bird had 
alighted in an apple tree on the Sterling farm, southwest of Camden. The 
weather had been rather mild, for November, until the 23d, when a heavy 
rain which began the night before changed to snow. During the 24th it 
was blustery, gradually growing colder until in the evening the temperature 
was 6 degrees Fahrenheit. The bird acted as if lost. A third specimen was 
killed near Camden about September 1, 1887. 
I have no Monroe County record of this species. 
