Vol. XXI 

 1904 



1 Bkxt, Nesting Habits of Florida Herodiones. 269 



that either this or the preceding species will be exterminated for 

 many years to come, though the young are taken from the nests 

 for food bv the natives of southern Florida. 



Butorides virescens. Green Heron. 



The status of this widely distributed species is about the same 

 in Florida as elsewhere throughout its range. It is nowhere 

 abundant but evenly distributed in all suitable localities. We 

 found scattering pairs of Green Herons breeding on Merritts 

 Island and in the interior of Brevard County, nesting in little 

 clumps of willows about the small pond holes. A few were seen 

 on the upper St. Johns and a few in Monroe County, among the 

 keys as well as along the streams in the interior. Among the 

 hosts of other interesting species we paid but little attention to 

 the Green Herons and noticed nothing new about their nesting 

 habits, which are practically the same here as elsewhere. 



Nycticorax nycticorax naevius. Black-crowned 

 Night Heron. 



I shall not prolong this paper with an account of this well 

 known species. It is enough to say that we found it nearly every- 

 where that we went. A few Black-crowned Night Herons were 

 breeding in the rookeries with other species on the St. Johns 

 River, one or two pairs in almost every rookery. In Monroe 

 County it was fairly common in the interior. We started a flock 

 of about 75 birds off one of the keys where they probably had a 

 fair sized breeding colony, though we did not have time to explore 

 it. 



Nyctanassa violacea. Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



This handsome Heron was nowhere very common in the 

 regions we visited, though, I believe, in certain sections it is quite 

 abundant. In its full breeding plumage it is a striking and con- 



