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The great blue heron suggests a 

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print, used to nest in considerable 

 numbers some years ago in some 

 scraggly-headed jack-pines which 

 grew along the shore of a "salt 

 pond" in old South County, 

 Rhode Island. There was nothing approaching 

 the great heronries of the swamps by the cen- 

 tral lakes of New York, but perhaps a dozen 

 nests could be seen each year, sagging platforms of 

 sticks in the trees, which, by the way, soon died. 

 Here the herons raised their families, and their fami- 



