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THE BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON. 



by from eighty to one hundred pairs of Qua Birds. In places where the cedars have been cut 

 down for sale, the birds have merely removed to another quarter of the swamp, but when 

 personally attacked, long teased, and plundered, they have been known to remove from an 





DAY AND NIGHT HERONS.— Anita nyctieorax. 



ancient breeding- place in a body, no one knew where. Such was the case Avith one on the 

 Delaware, which, having been repeatedly attacked and plundered by a body of crows, after 

 several severe rencontres, they suddenly disappeared, and abandoned the place. On the 



