La2 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
bow-net that was hanging out to dry* by Ormesby Broad, 
in December, 1820.” In Sir William Hooker’s MS., 
however, although the same facts are stated, this bird is 
said to have been taken on the 11th of July, but I 
have reason to believe that the former date is correct, 
as Mr. Dowell} was informed by the present owner of 
this specimen, the Rev. F. Ensor, of Lustleigh rectory, 
Newton Abbot, Devonshire, that it was taken in the 
the winter. It was captured alive, but as its proper food 
was not known, and it refused to eat, it was killed after 
a day or two, and its skin preserved. According to 
Selbyt “two of these herons were killed near Yarmouth 
in the month of May, 1831,” and judging from local 
records there is no doubt that one at least of these birds 
is the one now in Mr. J. H. Gurney’s collection, and 
formerly in the possession of Mr. Miller, of Yarmouth, 
which, as stated by Messrs. Paget, was procured at 
Oulton, near Lowestoft, in the adjoining county.|| Again 
on the 12th of June, 1834, a second example appears to 
have been obtained at either Ormesby or Filby, and 
purchased by Captain Chawner, of Alton, Hants, at that 
time collecting at Yarmouth ; and in the same month, 
according to a note in the handwriting of the late 
Mr. Lombe, another was shot on Lake Lothing, near 
Lowestoft. He also mentions one as lulled near 
Burlingham, Norfolk, but the date is not recorded. 
* Mr. Gurney informs me that tothe best of his beliefa squacco 
heron was taken many years ago, in a fisherman’s net spread on 
the beach to dry at Lowestoft or Pakefield. 
+ See a minute description of this bird by Mr. Dowell in the 
“ Zoologist ” for 1843, p. 78. 
t “British Ornithology,” vol. ii., p. 26 (note.) 
|| In the notes supplied me by Mr. Joseph Clarke, the date of 
this bird is given as January 5th, but in this case the Messrs. 
Paget and Selby are most probably correct. 
