TTTE LITTLE GREEN HERON 



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Stales, wherever timber is plentiful. In many localities of 

 the middle Wesl and the Mississippi Valley from which I h«- 

 great blue heron is now absent, this is the only heron to be 



GRE \T BL1 l. HEROIS 



found; and away from the Atlantic coast il is t lu* mosi 

 familiar member of its Order. 



Its body is ;il»oiii ;i-> large as thai of a sparrow hawk, and 

 when in a crouching altitude il is a very proper-looking bird. 

 AVilli ils neck stretched, however, and its head held high, the 

 body seems much too small, and the Deck makes the bird 



