Botaur us lentiglnosus . 
Canton, 
1893. 
July 10 
Mass. Nests. 
We (the Bowles Bros, and I in the Punkapog meadow) saw 
two Bitterns in this meadow and I was shown two of their nests. 
One from which four eggs were taken this season was supported 
six inches or more above the mud on grass stems bent down from 
ever;/ side and loosely interlaced, there being a clear space 
underneath. The other nest was built directly on the ground- 
on a dry mound. Both nests were in low dense grass in the 
open meadow although there„thickets of bushes near by, and 
both were composed wholly of grass, one of cut grass, the 
other of tussock grass. 
