HERONS 2 1 3 



doubtless coming to us from Holland. An irregular 

 visitant to England, and rarer in Scotland, it has 

 been procured in Ireland on a few occasions in 

 Cork and Wexford. Two were killed in Shetland in 

 July 1865 (Zool, 1865, pp. 9767, 9772). 



The weight of an adult Stork is 8 to 10 lbs. 



The Kev. Hubert Astley of Benham Park, New- 

 bury, has published an interesting account {Field, 

 Aug. 25, 1900) of his attempt to domesticate young 

 Storks obtained from Holland in June. In the 

 summer of 1900 he liberated five. Every evening 

 about seven o'clock they would sail with widespread 

 wings in splendid circles towards their roosting- 

 place, and every morning about four o'clock they re- 

 turned to the park in the immediate vicinity of the 

 water. On August 14 they took their departure, 

 presumably for Africa ; a few days later their owner 

 learnt that they were seen near Portsmouth, where 

 three of them were shot by some local gunner. 



Fam. ARDEID^. 



COMMON HERON. Ardea cinerea, Linngeus. PL 25, 

 figs. 1, 2. Length, 38 in. ; bill, 5 in. ; wing, 18 in. ; 

 tarsus, 6 'To in. 



Resident, and generally distributed. In the 

 Field of Feb. 17 and March 9, 1872, I published 

 a list (revised in the Zoologist, 1872, and again in 

 the "Encyclopaedia of Sport," 1897, ari. "Heron") 

 of all the Heronries ascertained to be then or lately 

 existing in the British Islands. A separate list of 



