388 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



fir and ash trees. Mr. F. Boyes knew persons who took 

 eggs there. 



Sutton-on-Derwent. About a hundred pairs nested up 

 to about i860. Capt. Dunnington Jefferson told me (1903), 

 they bred about twenty years ago, but, owing to persecution, 

 the birds forsook the place. 



Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, which ceased about 1865. 



Newton, near Malton, Sir George Cholmley's. There were 

 about twenty to twenty-five nests. This Heronry, which in 

 Sir Geo. Strickland's day contained up to sixty or seventy 

 nests in larch trees, has, within the past twenty years, been 

 forsaken. It was thought to be owing to the Rooks which 

 increased exceedingly, and to the war waged on Herons by 

 Angling Clubs (W. H. St. Quintin MS. 1903). 



Hornsea. One of the islands possessed a small Heronry, 

 but it is now abandoned, and another colony has been 

 established at the north side of the Mere. 



The present Heronries are at : — 



Hornsea. On Mr. Strickland Constable's property, 

 established about 1880, and now comprising about eighteen 

 nests in the wood at the Wassand end of the Mere. 



Scampston, Mr, W. H. St. Quintin's. About eight nests ; 

 sometimes a few more, built in larches. 



Moreby Park, near York, Major Preston's. There were 

 fifty nests in 1884 (J. Backhouse MS.), ten to twelve in 1892, 

 and now about eight or nine. 



Isolated nests are found near Winestead, at Everingham, 

 Beswick Rush, and in the Heron Wood at Escrick. 



Turning now to the North Riding, breeding places existed 

 at:— 



Riccaldale (C. Ward, Helmsley, MS.). 



Harmby, near Middleham. From the Heronry formerly 

 existing there the place probably derived its Saxon name, 

 Hernebie (Barker's " Three Days of Wensleydale," 1854). 



Kildale (" Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire "). Concerning 

 the colony here Mr. E. West writes (22nd March 1902), that 

 he once knew of a nest at Crag Bank, adjoining the lake, 

 in 1850, but never a Heronry. Mr. Thomas Stephenson 



