GREAT WHITE HERON. 



HER0DI0NE8. 



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ARDEID.E.' 



Ardea alba, Linnaeus.* 

 THE GREAT WHITE HERON. 



Ardea alha. 



The Great White Heron can only be considered as a 

 very rare and accidental visitor. Latham, in his ' General 

 History of Birds,' refers to one example said to have been 

 obtained in Cumberland many years ago, and this may, 

 perhaps, be the example cited by Mr. J. Robson in his 

 List of the Birds of West Cumberland (Zool. p. 4169), 



Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 239 (1766). 



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