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THE GREAT WHITE HERON. 



Ardea alba, Linnaeus. 



The Great White Heron is a rare visitor to Great Britain, and it 

 would appear from Mr. J. H. Gurney's careful revision (Tr. Norfolk 

 Soc. V. p. 186) that out of thirty-two "records," only five examples 

 are authenticated or available for examination. Two of these were 

 obtained in Yorkshire, and one of them is in the Museum of the 

 county city ; one, killed in East Lothian on June 9th 1840, is in 

 the collection of the Earl of Haddington at Tyninghame House ; 

 one (with the long back-plumes) shot on Thorney Fen, Cambridge- 

 shire, is now in the possession of Col. Charles Isham Strong, of 

 Thorpe Hall, Peterborough; and one, killed at Loch Katrine, 

 Scotland, in May 1881, and also having the dorsal-train fully 

 developed, is in the Edinburgh Museum. Others are said to have 



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