SQUACCO HERON. 



HERODIONES. 



191 

 ARDUIDJ?. 



Ardea ralloides, Scopoli.* 

 THE SQUACCO HEKON. 



Ardea comata. 



More than forty examples of this little Heron have now 

 heen taken in the British Islands. The earliest mention of 

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

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

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

 hird of this species shot at Boyton, in Wiltshire, in 1775. 

 As might be expected from its distribution on the Con- 

 tinent, its visits have almost invariably been in spring 



* Annus I. Historico-Naturalis, p. 88 (1769). 



