LEAST BITTERN. 



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Mass., May 18, 1901 (Brewster). The above are probably all the 

 records that have been published for this species north of Florida. 



The records in this latter State come from a restricted area in the 

 vicinity of the western side of Lake Okechobee and extend over the 

 three summer months from May 19, 1890, to August 15, 1891. A 

 number of specimens have been taken, showing that the bird is not 

 rare in that region, but so far there are no winter records for the 

 species anywhere, and 

 nothing to indicate 

 where the birds spend 

 the time from Sep- 

 tember to May. 



Great White Heron. Ar- 

 dea occidentalis Audu- 

 bon. 



The great white 

 heron has the most 

 restricted range of 

 any of the herons of 

 North America. It is 

 confined during the 

 breeding season to the 

 extreme southern part 

 of Florida, where it 

 has been known to 

 nest from Indian Key 

 (Audubon) ; west to 

 Marquesas Key (Fow- 

 ler) ; and north to 

 Cape Romano ( Scott ) . 



It is normally non- FlG ' 1J * C ry least bittern 



migratory, but a few individuals have wandered north on the east 

 coast of Florida to Brevard County (Chapman) ; in the interior to 

 Cypress Lake (Palmer) ; and on the west coast to Anclote River 

 (Scott). South of the United States it has been taken on the Rio 

 Lagartos, Yucatan (Brown), in Jamaica (March), and near Trini- 

 dad, Cuba (Chapman). Eggs have been taken on the Florida Keys 

 from October ( Scott) all through the winter and spring to the middle 

 of June (Thayer). 



Great Blue Heron. Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus. 



Range. The great blue heron with its several subspecies ranges 

 from ocean to ocean and north to southern Canada and southern 



neoxenus). 



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