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 246 THE CONDOR Vol. XVI 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. NST 01 THI SNOWY HIRON; BleAR RtVR, UTAH, MAY 1, 1910 where Mr. Kuudson secured for us a specimen of the "White Squawk" which proved to be the Snowy Heron (Ardea cadidissima). 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