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Photo by B. S. Bowdish. 



YOUNG GREEN HERON IN NEST. 



proved the negatives to be fairly satis- 

 factory. 



At this visit one of the parents re- 

 mained perched for some time in a 

 large dead tree about three rods from 

 the nest, but made no demonstration. 

 The nest at this time contained five 

 eggs, but I made no effort to ascertain 

 whether incubation had commenced or 

 not. 



I visited the nest again on June 26th, 

 hoping to secure a photograph of 

 young birds. Two eggs had just 

 hatched and a sixth egg had been laid. 

 I made two partially successful photo- 

 graphs of the four eggs and the two 

 helpless, sprawling young. One week 

 later, July 3d, I returned to the place 



and found six young birds of varying 

 sizes, the largest standing about six 

 inches high on his tiptoes, the small- 

 est still rather wabbly. They all 

 promptly stood up on their tiptoes 

 stretching their necks as high as pos- 

 sible, pushing their heads forward and 

 glaring at me, keeping up a continuous 

 hissing, interspersed with screams 

 which even at this age commenced to 

 have considerably the sound of the 

 adults cry. One of the parents prompt- 

 ly responded to these cries, and com- 

 ing to the large tree where it had on 

 the occasion of my last visit remained 

 a passive spectator, it gave vent to 

 screams differing from the usual cry 

 (which was interspersed occasionally), 



