CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. I4I 
fifteen and twenty nests in it. They used to breed in Muskoka in 
great numbers, but have been driven farther back and are rather 
scarce now. I have known one to sit upon a heap of floating mud 
in a small lake, for thirty-six hours, catching fish. They feed upon 
frogs and fish. At Crane lake, Sask., I counted thirteen nests in a 
clump of Negundo aceroides on June 16th, 1894. (Spreadborough.) 
Heronries are now generally deserted in the vicinity of London, Ont., 
and the birds are much less common than formerly. Single nests 
are now more and more the rule. Eggs, four and five, sometimes 
spotted with deep black. These spots consist of pitch which the 
birds bring on their feet from the fish nets in Lake Erie, They may 
be removed by the use of ether or other solvents of tar. (W. 
Saunders.) 
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194a. Northwest Coast Heron. 
Ardea herodias fannini CHAPMAN. 10901. 
Queen Charlotte and Vancouver islands and coast region of 
British Columbia. It is probable that all the great blue herons 
on the west coast are this variety. 
Common on the tide flats at Douglas, B.C. from April 15th when 
I.reached there until I left in May. Two seen at Chilliwack lake, 
July toth, 1906. Breeds also on Vancouver island. (Spread- 
borough.). Often seen feeding at low tide on the beaches and 
mud flats of Skidegate and Cumshewa inlets, Queen Charlotte 
islands. (Osgood.) 
195. European Blue Heron. 
Ardea cinerea LINN. 1758. 
Said by Crantz to have been seen in south Greenland, August 27th, 
1765; a young bird foung dead near Nenortalik in 1856 was sent 
to Copenhagen. (Arct. Man.) Several specimens taken since 1856. 
(Winge.) 
LXXV. HERODIAS Bole. 1822. 
196. American Egret. 
Herodias egretta (GMEL.) CABANIS. 1856. 
Casual in summer in Nova Scotia. (Downs.) One shot at Grand 
Manan, New Brunswick, in 1878. (C. J. Maynard.) This species 
