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Range (Florida from Alachua County)

Florida, from Alachua County southward.

Nest, a platform of sticks, in colonies, generally in cypress trees. Eggs, three to four, pale, dull blue, 2.65 x 1.85.

This is the Florida form of the following, which it resembles in habits. It is more common than the Great Blue Heron, and is generally distributed throughout the peninsula from Gainesville southward. 194. Ardea herodias Linn. GREAT BLUE HERON; BLUE CRANE;