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In Knox and (Gibson counties Mr.. Robert Ridgway reported heronries 

 and noted the breeding of the Great Blue Heron, the Snowy Heron and 

 the American Egret. 



The American Egret, according to Mr. E. J. Chansler, breeds about 

 Swan and Grassy Ponds, Daviess county. 



Dr. J. T. Scovell reports that up to about 1881 or 1882 an extensive 

 heronry of the American Egret was to be found in the Wabash bottoms 

 about a mile west of Terre Haute. 



Mr. J. F. Elliott, of New Harmony, informs me of a heronry at Hovey's 

 Pond, Posey county, Indiana. 



There is no record of any heronries in southeastern Indiana, but Dr. 

 F. W. Langdon reports the Great Blue Heron as breeding along the Great 

 Miami River, and in the' neighboring parts of Ohio. Great Blue Herons 

 have been reported as breeding in communities about ten miles south of 

 Frankfort, in Clinton county, where they were noted by Mr. E. R. Quick, 

 A small colony has also bred regularly at the mouth of the Tippecanoe 

 River, above Lafayette, but when it was visited in May, 1897, but one or 

 two pairs were found as lone remnants of the former community. 



In Carroll county, Prof. B. W. Evermann speaks of two large heron- 

 ries and one small one. He found as many as thirteen nests on one tree 

 at one place and many other trees contained from three to ten nests each. 

 (The Auk, October, 1888, p. 347). They are also reported to have formerly 

 bred in colonies in Dekalb county, and investigation may show that they 

 still do so. 



Prof. A. W. Bitting reports a small heronry of about one hundred nests 

 in southern Marshall county, on an island in the Tippecanoe River, at a 

 locality called the Millpond. These were Great Blue Herons and he saw 

 them in 1891. The same observer informs me that up to about 1890 there 

 was a heronry of twenty-five or thirty nests of the American Egret in the 

 Preston Swamp, in the same county, about two miles north of the one he 

 first mentions. 



There is a* heronry of Great Blue Herons at Golden Lake, in Steuben 

 county, and one at Wolf Lake, in Noble county, at each of which, accord- 

 ing to Mr. H. W. McBride, occasional pairs of American Egrets have been 

 found breeding. 



Mr. R. B. Trouslot wrote me of a visit he made to "Cranetown, in 

 Jasper county, in April, 1887. At that time he estimated there were thou- 

 sands of Great Blue Herons nesting, and he saw a few American Egrets. 



