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the collection of Mr. Foljambe, of Osbertou, near Worksop' 

 [in Nottinghamshire], with a label on the case stating it to 

 have been killed near that place." A third Yorkshire ex- 

 ample, shot at New Hall, near Barnsley, in 1821, is in the 

 possession of Sir Joseph Radcliffe (Clarke, Yorks. Vertebs. 

 p. 50). The Author received a notice of one killed in Lin- 

 colnshire, but where the specimen was deposited he did not 

 know ; and Mr. Frederick Holme sent him the measure- 

 ments of a specimen shot on the Isis in Oxfordshire, in Sep- 

 tember, 1833. An adult male killed on the 9th of June, 

 1810, on Tyninghame sands, in the Frith of Forth, by 

 Mr. Martin, gamekeeper to the Earl of Haddington, is in 

 the collection at Tyninghame House, and was examined in 

 a recent state by Macgillivray. Lastly, one shot on Thorney 

 Fen, Cambridgeshire, in 1849 (Zool. p. 2568), is now in 

 the possession of Mr. Charles Isham Strong, of Thorpe 

 Hall, Peterborough. It has the ornamental plumes on the 

 back, and is said to have been killed between the 1st of 

 May and the 14th of July. 



There are also statements as to this species having been 

 recognized, but not obtained ; for instance, according to 

 Mr. Thomas Edward, on the Loch of Strathbeg, and again 

 on the coast of Banif ; on the Solway and in various parts of 

 Scotland in severe winters ; on Romney Marsh, Kent, by 

 moonlight; and near Penzance. But dismissing these records 

 for what they may be worth, it would appear that at least six 

 British-killed specimens are still available for examination. 



On the Continent this beautiful species of Heron was in- 

 cluded in the Swedish Fauna by Linnseus and Retzius, Avho 

 say of it. Habitat in Scania, visa ad Araslof ; and Mr. 

 Dresser states, on the authority of Dr. Sundstrom, that 

 five examples have been obtained in Sweden between No- 

 vember, 1856, and May, 1877. To the western portions of 

 Europe and to the Azores it is merely a straggler, but it 

 not unfrequently visits the eastern coasts of Spain, and the 

 marshes of the south of France, breeding, according to Dr. 

 Companyo, until quite recently, near Perpignan. Alexander 

 von Homeyer found a single pair nesting near Glogau in 



