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line. On July 18, 191(i, he very kindly took C. C. Deam and me to the site. 

 It is a low woods with many large eottonwoods and swamp white oaks on 

 the land of Lewis C. Mills. Mr. Williamson said last year he counted forty- 

 five or forty-six nests, but was unable to tell how many of these were occu- 

 pied. On the day of our visit we saw few birds, but found the heronry had 

 been "shot up." Many dead birds, young and adults, were found on the 

 ground beneath the trees bearing the nests. Under one tree we counted 

 fifteen carcasses. Under another an empty cartridge box doubtless indicated 

 the means of the awful slaughter. Such an atrocious act is an outrage that 

 ought not to go unpunished. 



Mr Mills says the herons began occupying this woods for nesting purposes 

 about thirty years ago. 



The herony used by these birds for many years in the Schildemeyer woods 

 near Julietta, Marion County, was again occupied the past season as it has 

 been for many years and I am indebted to Mr. Hohenberger for some ex- 

 cellent photographs of some of the nests. 



Mr. James L. Mitchell of Indianapolis, informed me recently that in 

 1912 or 1913 he found a heronry of this species on the Kankakee river. He 

 counted twelve nests but there may have been more. It was approximately 

 within three fourths of a mile of an island where George W. Miles, the Fish 

 and Game Commissioner, had his camp not far from Hebron. 



Paul Weatherwax of Indiana University called my attention to a herony 

 of Great Blue Herons in Carroll County heretofore not reported. He has 

 kindly supplied me with the following information from Ted Stanton who 

 lives near its site. 



These nests are about six miles southeast of Delphi and four miles north- 

 west of Flora; on the John 0. CartAvright farm. They are in an 80 acre 

 wooded tract in almost its original condition, only the dead timber having 

 been removed. The herony is not near any stream of considerable size. 



The nests are in all kinds of trees, some tall and some smaller. Nests of 

 sticks; no lining and are about 2J^ feet in diameter and loosely put together. 



The birds have been known to nest there for the last eight years, and 

 have probably been there much longer. There were about 20 nests in 1916, 

 and the same number in 1915. 



Being of no economic importance, few of the birds are killed by people. 

 Some of the young fall from the nest and are killed by the fall. 



The eggs are greenish blue; about as large as a duck egg; four or five at 

 a sitting, but only one sitting a year. 



The young are fed on fish caught by the old ones in Wild Cat Creek, six 

 miles away. Old birds may be seen flying to the creek to fish early in the 

 morning. The hawks get a few of the young. 



