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during the past season; they are distributed as follows: Connecticut, i; 

 Florida, 8; Georgia, i; Louisiana, 2; Maine, 14; Massachusetts, i; Michigan, 

 3; North Carolina, i; New Jersey, 2; New York, 3; South Carolina, 2; Texas, 

 i; Virginia, 2. 



The birds in most of the colonies have had a prosperous year despite the 

 starvation of young on some of the Maine islands, due to the failure of food- 

 supply, and the loss of eggs and young in some of the southern Heron colonies, 

 caused by storm-winds. The birds which are primarily receiving the benefit 



WARDEN (J. t. hAWARl) Ol- OKAMjE LAkL, FLORIDA, ROOKERY 

 Photographed by Dr. H. R. Mills 



