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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



M. Gibbs. describing- notes and contortions in uttering them, see O. and O.. Vol. XIV. 

 1889. p. 21. and Oologist. Vol. X. 1892. p. 73. 

 79-191-(667). Botauriis exilis (Gme/.). Lk.ast Bittern. 



Common throughout Southern Michigan: summer resident; "abundant at Ann 

 Ai-bor and at Grand Rapids" (R. H.Wolcott); "common in Oakland county, where it 

 breeds" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); "common in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley); one in 

 collection of C. E. Holmes at Grand Rapids taken in Muskegon Co.; "all Southern 

 Michigan" (A. H. Boies); breeds; nests in June, on the ground, in marshes, on a simple 

 platform of reeds and sedges, often half way up on dead flags, usually over the water, 

 "occasionally in a bush" (Prof. J. W. Simmonsj; eggs three to six. white with 

 bluish tinge; " nests in Oakland county "" (W. C. Brownell. in O. and O., Vol. XVI, p. .32); 

 bird stupid and so, easily caught. This species occurs in Sager's list of 18,39. 



SuBFAMn.Y ARDEINiE. HkKONS and EciRETS. 



Gknus ARDEA. Ltnn. 



Great Blue Ilerun. 



