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structures, composed of dry sticks 

 placed so loosely as to admit light 

 through them; iu fact we rarely climbed 

 to a nest without first having seen eggs 

 in it from below. The adult bird is of 

 a dark blue color. They do not attain 

 this plumage until the third year, being 

 pure white when young. We .saw 

 many birds half blue and half white 

 most probably about two years old, 

 which we then mistook for hybrids of 

 the Little Blue and Snowy species. 



The eggs are uniformly light blue, 

 about 1.70x1.30. 



We found thirteen nests of the An- 

 hinga. I believe these birds are not in 

 the habit of building a new nest each 

 year, but simplv adding to the old 

 one, so that in the course of two or 

 three seasons the nest becomes a very 

 dirty, as well as a bulky affair. The 

 ■ eggs are a dirty chalky color, which 

 when scraped off, discloses a beautiful 

 blue, they are usually four, rarely 

 five iu number. On account of the 

 shyness of these birds we were unable 

 to shoot any. 



Hearing a whirr of wings we looked 

 up and saw a Jticck of birds flying, like 

 geese, in a V. We fired into the drove 

 and brought down three fine ones, 

 which proved to be White Ibises, two 

 males and a female. As far as I was 

 able to learn these birds did not breed 

 in that section. 



We had now a good load: upwards 

 of one hundred eggs, a number of birds, 

 and seven young live Herons — little 

 beauties. It was getting very daak 

 underneath the thick foliage overhead, 

 so we started home where we reached 

 about 9 p. m. tired and dirty. 



The young Herons remained with us 

 about a week, feeding with the chick- 

 ens, then wandered off and we never 

 saw them afterwards. 



W. H. Deadrick, 

 Clarksville, Tenn- 



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