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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 fortf 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 



