July, 1910 
SOME COLORADO NIGHT HERON NOTES 
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two seen on the 11th, one nest containing five eggs and two containing three eggs 
each. All three were very fine examples of nest bilding, similar in every way to 
the nests found the preceding week . A photo was taken of the nest and five eggs, 
which turned out to be the first of a very interesting series of pictures of this 
particular nest. 
Fig. 35. THE SAME NEST JUNE 15, 1907; THE YOUNG ABOUT THREE WEEKS QUD 
Upon visiting the larger colony in the swamp, we were dismayed to find that 
some vandal (whether two-footed or four-footed we could not determine) had vis- 
ited the colony and partially destroyed it; fully half of the nests contained 
broken egg-shells, and many of the nests were entirely destroyed. 
On this visit we found two sets of six eggs each which were the 
