The Oologist. 



Vol. XXII. No. 2. 



Albion, N. Y., Feb., 1905. 



Whole No. 211 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

 OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DERMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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A Chapter from the Life History of the 

 Green Heron. 



(By B. S. Bowdish.) 



During my vacation in the second 



week of June, 1903, at Demarest, N. J., 



I became satisfied that a pair of Green 



Herons were breeding in a swamp 



there, but as a pair of high rubber 

 boots seemed indispensable to an in- 

 vestigation, and I did not have any- 

 thing of the sort "with me, my sus- 

 picions remained unconfirmed. 



During the spring of the present 

 year, I observed a pair of herons about 

 this swamp on several occasions, and 

 it seemed probable that they would 

 again nest there, so when I started on 

 my vacation, May 28th., a pair of high 

 rubber boots formed an important 

 part of my equipment. 



The swamp where the birds were 

 seen is about half a mile long by an 

 eighth of a mile wide, being a bog- 

 hole three fourths surrounded by a 

 fringe of hard wood timber. Its edge 

 is protected from the average rambler 

 by a depth of water that, save in a few 

 places, renders high boots unavailing, 

 and extending in a rod or more. Be- 

 yond this the bog is a morass of yield- 

 ing moss, where one sinks into alter- 

 nating depths of six to eighteen inches 

 of water. It is grown with a dense 

 tangle of, bush and vine, in places 

 dwarf tamaracs, and scattered here and 

 there, the knarled and scragly skele- 

 tons of large and mostly dying trees. 



To this swamp I went, on June 8th, 

 equiped with camera, tripod, ball-and- 

 socket clamp, plate-holders and high 

 boots. After some difficulty I effected 

 an entrance without shipping any 

 water, and steered my course toward 

 that portion of the swamp that I 

 thought most likely to be the nesting 

 site of the herons. Only those who 

 have been similarly situated can ap- 

 preciate the pleasure of making one's 

 way through such a tangle, carrying 

 tripod, camera, and haversack of 

 plate-holders, where every step one 



