SQUACCO HERON. 



HERODIONES. 



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 A RDEIDJf.. 



Aedea ealloides, Scopoli.* 



THE SQUACCO HERON. 



Ai'dea comata. 



More than forty examples of this little Heron have now 

 been taken in the British Islands. The earliest mention of 

 it as a visitor is in the Minutes to the Transactions of the 

 Linuean Society, iii., where it is recorded, under date of 4th 

 April, 1797, that Mr. Lambert presented a drawing of a 

 bird of this species shot at Boy ton, in Wiltshire, in 1775. 

 As might be expected from its distribution on the Con- 

 tinent, its visits have almost invariably been in spring 



* Annus 1. Historico-Natuialis, p. 88 (1769). 



