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GRE.AT WHITE HERON. 



Dust why so large a number of people should be so persis- 

 tent in this error is a psychological problem; but the fact 

 remains that people will not say "heron." 



This Great Blue Heron is the largest and most noteworthy 

 bird of our northern marshes. Thanks to the fact that it 

 bears no desirable "plumes," and its flesh is not edible, it 

 has been permitted to live. When not molested, it becomes 

 quite trustful, and when wading along a shore, fishing for 

 minnows, it affords for the field-glass or the camera a very 

 interesting subject. In summer these birds are quite numer- 

 ous in the marshes along the Shrewsbury River, between 

 Sandy Hook and Long Branch, and they are an unfailing 

 source of interest to excursionists, It is sincerely to be 



