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pal food of the species, consisting of crawfish, frogs, and the smaller 

 reptiles, is to be found in abundance. It first became known to the 

 writer as an Illinois bird through Mr. Samuel Turner of Mt. Carmel, 

 who obtained specimens of the bird and its eggs in the coffee flats a 

 few miles south of that place." According to Nelson it breeds at 

 least as far north as Wabash County, Illinois." (Birds of N. E. 

 Illinois, 1876, p. 151.) 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron (adult). 



