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siderably smaller than a crow's nest, so loosely put together that the eggs 

 may often be seen from the grotmd. These are from three to six in niimber, 

 elliptical, pale greenish, and about 1.38 x 1.12 inches in size. 



Young Green herons 



Photo by L. S. Horton 



Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Boddaert) 

 Black-crowned Night Heron 



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Ardea naevia Boddaert. Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783. 56 

 Ardea discors DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 227, fig. 185 

 Nycticorax nycticorax naevius A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. 

 No. 202 



nycti'corax, Gr. and Lat., Night-raven, the classic name of the Night heron; 

 ncB'vius, Lat., birth-marked, spotted 



Description, Adult: Top of head, back and scapulars glossy greenish 

 black ; front and sides of head and lower parts generally white ; rump, wings 

 and tail ashy gray ; two or more narrow white occipital plumes several inches 



