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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. 



M. Gibbs, describing notes and contortions in uttering them, see O. and O.. Vol. XIV, 

 1889. p. 21. and Oologist, Vol. X, 1892. p. 73. 

 79-191-(667). Botaurns exilis (Gmel.). Least Bittern. 



Common throughout Southern Michigan; summer resident; "abundant at Ann 

 Arbor and at Grand Rapids " (R. H.WoIcott); "common in Oakland county, where it 

 breeds" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); "common in Monroe Co." (Jerome Trombley); one in 

 collection of C. E. Holmes at Grand Rapids taken in Muskegon Co.; "all Southern 

 Michigan" (A. H. Boies); breeds; nests in June, on the ground, in marshes, on a simple 

 platform of reeds and sedges, often half way up on dead flags, usually over the water, 

 "occasionally in a bush" (Prof. J. W. Simmons); eggs three to six, white with 

 bluish tinge; " nests in Oakland county " (W. C. Brownell, in O. and O., Vol. XVI, p. 32); 

 bird stupid and so, easily caught. This species occurs in Sager's list of 1839. 



Subfamily ARDEINjE. Hebons and Egrets. 

 Gbnus ARDEA Linn. 



Great Blue Heron. 



