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memories. Every effort should be made suitably to protect it. Its situation, 

 and the sympathy of the people in the neighborhood, should make it a very 

 easy matter to afford such protection, and I cannot advise too strongly that the 

 Audubon Society concentrate its efforts on this spot. The colonies, or what are 

 left of the colonies, in the southern part of the state — in the Big Cypress, the 

 Everglades, and the Keys, — are so situated that it is almost impossible to 

 give them any protection. Here, at Orange Lake, there is room for the colony 

 to grow. Birds from other colonies which have been broken up drift in here, 

 and there is every reason to believe that, with a little attention, a colony can 

 be established which would be a monument to the National Association and 

 ■one of the sights of Florida. Certainly no better chance will ever be offered. 



LITTLE BLUE HERONS AND NEST, ORANGE LAK'E, FLORIDA, ROOKERY 

 Photographed by P. B. Philipp 



