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evidence of Messrs. Paget, in 1834, that Mr. Youell had 
known six or seven of them to have been killed in 
hat locality, at different times, and in Mr. Hunt’s List 
(1829), one is said to have been killed at Docking, and 
another at Holkham; the latter, according to Messrs. 
Sheppard and Whitear, in 1819. Again, on the 24th of 
May, 1824, from a fruit tree, out of the north gates at 
Yarmouth, was shot the memorable specimen, which, first 
recorded by Mr. Youell, in the Linnean Society’s Trans- 
actions (vol. xiv., p. 588), as the Cayenne night-heron 
(Ardea cayennensis, Linn.), was, as such, included by 
Selby in his “Illustrations of British Ornithology.’* 
This bird, however, which is now in Mr. Gurney’s 
collection, and was purchased by him from the late Mr. 
Thurtell, of EHaton,+ has been long since established as 
only a very fine adult specimen of Nycticoraz griseus, 
remarkable, as stated by Mr. Youell, for having “six 
crest feathers of unequal length,” and for the straight- 
ness and rigidity of those feathers. I may here remark, 
however, that Dr. Henry Giglioli, in his “ Notes on the 
birds observed at Pisa and its neighbourhood in 1864” 
(Ibis, 1865, p. 60), particularly mentions the variable 
number of the feathers in the occipital crest of the 
common night-heron, he having procured a specimen 
with six, although he found three the more usual 
number. In the same winter of 1824, according to 
some notes recently supplied me by Mr. Rising, of 
Horsey, no less than three specimens of this heron were 
killed on the North Denes, at Yarmouth, and another, 
* So recorded also in Messrs. Paget’s “Sketch,” in Hunt’s 
List and in the “ Catalogue of British Birds,” by Mr G. R. Gray, 
of the British Museum. 
+ Mr. Thurtell bought this bird originally from Harvey, a 
Yarmouth bird preserver, and believing it to be a true Cayenne 
night-hcron, refused £30 for it, offered him by the late Mr. Lombe. 
