of that month we fell in with a large flock, evidently 

 just arrived, in the great marshes of the Acheron, 

 near the little harbour of Phanari, in Epirus. From 

 that time I constantly noticed small parties of these 

 Herons about the coast of Epirus, and occasionally 

 in the island of Corfu, till about the middle of May, 

 when they disappeared from the coast, as I believe, 

 to breed in the marshes of the interior. I observed 

 large numbers of adult and young birds about the 

 southern end of the Lake of Scutari, in Albania, in 

 August of the year last mentioned. The migrating 

 birds appeared to keep entirely to the open marshes 

 during the daytime ; indeed I do not remember to have 

 ever met with one in Epirus in any sort of covert, but 

 I believe that they retired to roost in the jungles of 

 willows and tamarisk that abound in that province. 



In general habits this bird seemed to me to resemble 

 the Little Egret ; but I subsequently found that in 

 Andalucia, where it breeds, it in some respects approxi- 

 mates closely to the Bitterns. The Squacco Heron 

 generally nests in colonies, and builds a nest of twigs in 

 trees or low bushes in the marshes ; but Canon Tristram 

 found nests, composed of great heaps of water-weed and 

 rushes, built amongst the reed-jungles of Lake Halloula, 

 in Algeria. 



I have received a few eggs of this bird, from Southern 

 Spain, with great numbers of those of the Buff-backed 

 and Night Herons. The eggs of the present species 

 are of a greenish blue, intermediate in tint between 

 those of the two species just named. I have reason to 

 believe that their average complement is four. 



