HERONS 439 



One, Otmoor, Oxfordshire, Aug. 5, 1865 : Prior, ZooL, 1877, 



p. 181 ; Aplin, " Birds of Oxfordshire," p. 187. 

 One, Westacre, Norfolk, May 19, 1867 : Hammond, Ihis, 



1867, p. 382 ; Stevenson, op. cit. 

 One, Breydon Harbour, Norfolk, June 27, 1877; Babing- 



ton, p. 241. 

 One on the Deben, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, Sept, 28, 



1882: Field, Oct. 7, 1882; Babington, "Birds of 



Suffolk," p. 241. In the possession of Major Cobbold 



of Utibrd. 

 One, Tresco, Scilly, May 7, 1890,'shotby Mr. Smith Dorrien. 



I saw this specimen, an adult bird, on its arrival in 



London for preservation. 

 One, Northolt, near Harrow, July 25, 1893, an adult male: 



D. Meinertzhagen, ZooL, 1893, p. 396 (measurements 



and other details given as above; expanse of wing, 



5 ft. 11 in.). 



Fam. ARDEID.E. 



GREAT WHITE HERON. Ardea alba, Linnaeus. 

 PI. 25, fig. 6. Length, 36 in. ; bill, 5*5 in. ; wing, 15-5 

 in. ; tarsus, 7*75 in. 



Hab. South-Eastem Europe ; India ; North Africa. 



One or more seen in England about 1678 : Willughby, 

 " Ornithology," p. 279, PI. 49. Probably Spoonbills. 



One, Cumberland, "some years since" (1824): Latham, 

 "Gen. Hist. Birds," vol. ix. p. 84. Doubtful; not 

 quoted by Heysham in his List of Cumberland Birds 

 in Hutchinson's " Hist. Cumberland," 1794. 



One seen near Aveton Giffard, on the Avon, Devon, 

 autumn 1805: Montagu, "Orn. Diet. SuppL," 1813. 

 Probably a Spoonbill. 



One, Loch of Strathbeg, sprmg 1816 : Edward, Nat, 1854, 

 p. 243. Very likely a Spoonbill. 



One, New Hall, Barnsley, in 1821 : Clarke and Roebuck, 

 " Yorks. Vertebr.," p. 50. Formerly, but not now, in 



