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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 



HERON CHOKED TO DEATH BY CATFISH 



Tlie accompanying photograph is of a black-crowned night heron 

 {Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli) wliich was found dead at Hemet 

 Lake, Riverside County, May 8, ]932. It had evidently choked itself 

 to death in an unsuccessful attempt to swallow an eiglit-inch catfisli, 

 part of which can be seen protruding from the bird's mouth in the 

 ])ho1o (Pig. ID). — ,7. //. Oycjer, Game Warden, Perris, June 15, J9:i2. 



Fig. in. Niglit heron choked to death by catfi.sh, 

 Hemet Lake, Cal. Plioto by J. H. Gyger. 



