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school lands from the State, and some by reclamation, until now they possess 
10,000 acres of the best feeding and breeding ground for water birds in the 
inter-mountain country. He also told of a Government man who came out in 
the early seventies with a survey party to seek some knowledge of the Utah 
birds ; how he paid, what seemed to them, fabulous prices for eggs which they 
brought to him from marsh and mountain; how he and Mr. James Pett con- 
tinued collecting specimens which they sent on to this man at Washington. We 
asked if it were not H. W. Henshaw, and he seemed to feel quite sure that was 
the name. 
The following morning we went by team to the outskirts of the marshes, 
Fig. 71. Nest of the Snowy Heron; Bear River, Utah, May 1, 1910 
where Mr. Knudson secured for us a specimen of the “White Squawk” which 
proved to be the Snowy Heron {Ardea carididissima) . He also pointed out the 
approximate location of the rookery where this bird had nested in company 
with the Great Blue and Black-crowned Night Heron since his first knowledge 
of the marshes. 
Each successive year we noted many of these birds flying about, but our 
time being limited and the rookery not easy of access, it was not until April 
22, 1910, that Edward Treganza reached the colony. Each year since, one or 
all three of us have visited this heronry endeavoring to ascertain if these birds 
were increasing. It is opportune to note here, that this information with other 
