.girds Tioga 0®, N.Y, 
Aides Loring, 
494 . Little Green Heron. Common. Found j 
along the river hanks and creeks; lives on j 
dragon flies, small fish, etc. Breeds. Builds 
in trees. The nest is composed entirely of 
twigs and is lined with a few dried leaves. A 
set of four taken by me measure 1 1-2 in. by 
1 1-8 in., 1 1-2 m. by 1 1-8 in., 1 1-2 in. by 
1 3-10 in., 1 5-8 in. by 1 3-16 in. Their color is ! 
a sky blue; they are very coarse and rough 
looking. 
O d ®>© a S?, toe, 1890, p.80 
Oological Notes. 
The Green Heron is quite common in its 
favorite haunts here, but is always shy, and 
up to 1889 I was never able to find any of 
its eggs. On June 26 , 1839 , while paddling 
up a creek near here, I found a nest with 
one egg. It was seven feet above the water, 
and built on an overhanging branch of a 
birch. As the small boys oologically inclined 
are very numerous here, I carried the nest and 
j egg home. A week later I found a new nest, 
occupying exactly the same place of the one 
I had formerly taken, with four eggs. 
, It ■ y* - • g. P . ( 
Q&O.XVI, March. 1891 , p, V* 
