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2ho snowy heron nests in colonies in the lower Bear Elver 
marshes, and on July 3 and 14, 1916, S3 nestlings were marked with 
bands. In March, 1917, a peon at liexcaltltan, 'territory of Pepio, 
Mexico, brought a bit of aluminum to a Japanese labor contractor who 
chanced to pass through, saying that he had found it cm the leg of a 
heron that he had killed and eaten. She band had been preserved out 
of curiosity as the peon was unable to read, but chance brought a 
return on one of the snowy herons marked in 
year. 
About June 1, 
another was Billed on the Papagayo lagoon, in 
Guerrero, Mexico (long, 99° 48* f., lat, 16° 48’ 
was reported 
through the State department by the American consul at Acapulco* A 
third record is of a snowy heron found on the San Pedro Elver in north¬ 
western Cochise County, Arizona, on April 13, 1919 (released in Utah, 
July 3, 1916}, Prom this it seems that the breeding snowy herons of 
the Salt lake Valley winter on the west coast of Mexico, fheir route 
northward may follow the Colorado Elver, or birds may scatter in an 
inland flight that carries them more or less directly northward. In 
Utah it was observed that though part of the snowy herons arrived early, 
others continued to loin the breeding colonies until late in June, 
observations that coincide with the late date at which one from this 
region was secured in Guerrero, 
