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Great White Heron (Great Blue Heron)
Caption on print: Great White Heron
Audubon
painted the Great White Heron near Key West, after a night hunt with James
Egan. The background depicts Key West.
"Mr. Egan kept for about a year one of these birds, which ... was allowed
to ramble along the shores of Indian Key in quest of food. ... The bird
was known to all the resident inhabitants, but was at last shot by some
Indian Hunter, who had gone there to dispose of a collection of sea shells."
Reproductions
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