210 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



is at least a hundred yards from the nearest stream, and men and boys are 

 often working close to it. — B. P. C, Ipswich. 



A White House Sparrow. — In July last, a SpaiTOw of a dirty white colour 

 below and a light cream above, was shot here; it was a hen bird, and had at 

 the time, I am told, either eggs or young ones, but of this I cannot be sure, as 

 I did not see the nest myselfj the bird was, however, very bare imderneath, 

 as if she was sitting. — Idem. 



I bought a cream-coloured variety of the Common Brown Linnet, (Fringilla 

 linota,) and a white and brown bird of the same sort from a keeper in the 

 neighbourhood of Basingstoke, when in Hampshire, in August last. — Idem. 



ADDITIONAL HERONRIES. 



As one of your correspondents wished information respecting any additional 

 Heronries, the following may be inserted : — About twenty years ago, there was 

 a Heronry of long standing at Monkcastle House, in the parish of Kilwinning, 

 Ayrshire. The Herons built their nests on the trees that encompassed the 

 house: a new house, however, being built on an eminence at some distance 

 from the old one, when the family removed to this new residence, the Herons 

 were left unprotected; so that, after experiencing much annoyance, they forsook 

 Monkcastle, and chose to fix their abode some miles distant, near Eglinton 

 Castle, where the Lugden falls into the Kiver Irvine. This continued for some 

 years to be their breeding-place; but, unfortunately, the Eglinton Iron 

 works were established close to the Heronry, and the persecuted birds being 

 constrained to look out for some quieter habitation, have gone we know not 

 whither. — D. La7idsb(»'oughj Saltcoats. 



Your correspondent, at page 60 of ^'The Naturalist," has omitted in his 

 list of Lincolnshire Heronries, to 'mention one which is situated at Manby, 

 near Brigg, on the estate of the Earl of Yarborough. I believe it is much 

 on the decline. — S. P. Alington, Sioinliope Rectory. 



There is rather a large one at "The IVIoor," the seat of Mrs. Penoyre, in 

 Herefordshire, near the town of Hay, which is in Brecon : it has been there from 

 time immemorial. It is situated in a wood of large oaks, some of which being 

 once felled, but not grubbed up, the Herons deserted it for a time, but have 

 since returned. In the middle of August, 1849, a Heron was shot near a 

 large reservoir, belonging to the new river company, at Stoke Newington, near 

 Highbury, Middlesex. Another was also twice seen at the commencement of 

 last month, in a field at Highbury, and only half-a-mile from a populous district. 

 — E. E. Stride, Highbury Park, Islington, near London, August IG^/t., 18ol. 



Thefe is one now in existence at Denny Lodge, New Forest, Hants. — /''. 

 Hyde. UArcy, Lymington, Hants., September 20i/i., 1851. 



A few pairs of Herons have, during the past two summers, bred in Trenant 



