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ALLEN’S naturalist’s LIBRARY. 
SeSiSt™. 'Tars’ r » 
our very rarest visitors. ’ " ^ Egiet is one of 
Eange outside the British Islands.— Rare in HoIi-inA n 
and the north of France and nnt Germany, 
In the Mediterranea count^^^^ ‘he Baltic 
tend, into central Europe tSlivonia S Hr*'*' “r 
breeds pretty commonly along the Lower n while it 
Black Sea and the Casninn .>« ro. h>anube. From the 
Ceylon, the Burmese countries China Sd”?* 
to be found in most parts of AfriV-. Japan. It seems 
it breeds as far south L the cfpe Colony 
observing this'^’blrd^on ThrLower D ^ opportunities for 
breeds principally i° the denS h 
open marshes, sand-banks and shall °'^‘?h'okets, it frequents 
margins of the streams wherfiis c ”'"" the 
it an extremely conspicuous bird ”°y''yh'‘o plumage makes 
the other species of Herons nror> r “ ^'Sht it resembles 
its broad fvings! havinrtheTead rf 
shoulders, and the lees^pxtPnrl«A ^ “P between the 
line with [he back Uoon iIp f "‘‘^he a straight 
sedate and easy action^of the oTheTHerr”"® ‘he 
be called a shy bird • Lt is ^an scarcely 
shoot, except at its breeding-colon^ ^ 
standing in the water, but d^oes no^t' show ^ 
perching, except in the vicinity of its nest The^'f^ a 
L ittle Egret consists princinallv nf fioK j* food of the 
also eats aquatic inserts, frSgs, and worn^ but it 
Nest.— The same author, in his ‘‘M.cfc' r , 
gives a graphic account of a birds’^Psi?'^^ ®irds,” 
by himself and Mr. John Young in the T rf "aade 
says that the breeding-place of the \ He 
difficult to find, as it was entirely hidrl/^ r 
pollard-willows where the ‘"jhe forests of 
last found a colony of NighSlerons 
Ifidle Egrets, and my own eVerienc^s in 
with Mr. Seebohm’s in this respect that 
long distance in a marsh befofe TaS b^eed^ 
