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Lastly, in the list of Norfolk heronries (vol. iv. p. 166) 

 there is a double error in the statement that there is a 

 colony of Herons at Spixworth, and that their nests are in 

 Portugal laurels. There is no heronry at Spixworth, and 

 the birds which bred in the laurels were Books ; but 

 although the information has proved to be incorrect, it came 

 from an informant whose name is so well know^n in connec- 

 tion with Norfolk that there was no primary reason to doubt 

 it. To those who are only acquainted with the Heron as 

 nesting on tall trees, my credulity may appear absurd, but 

 ornithologists of wider experience who have seen, on the 

 one hand, laurels strong enough to sustain the nest of an 

 Eagle, and have found, on the other, Herons nesting on 

 mere bushes, will admit that there was no inherent improb- 

 ability in the statement. 



Ho^vAKD Saunders. 



J, Radnor Place, Hyde Park, W., 

 30^^ April, 1885. 



