318 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT. 
Phalacrocorax graculus. SuHAc. 
The late Mr. J. Price wrote: “ The Crested Cormorant is 
certainly not uncommon here” (at Llandudno.) 
Mr. STIvens tells me he had one from the ‘‘Orme’’; and 
Mr. Brapsoury says that his friend, Mr. HoLmEs, shot one on 
the Conway, about 18go. or 
* Sula bassana. GANNET. 
‘We had an immature specimen stuffed, which was killed 
some years ago on the Dee.” (Br. p. 16.) 
There is one (immature) in Mr. ConGREvE’s collection at 
Burton. Mr. TowNnsHEenpD LoGan tells me he has seen two 
Gannets flying’ over Upton, Chester, evidently passing between 
the Mersey and the Dee. 
An adult specimen was found dead on the shore at Abergele 
by Mr. J. P. Earwaker, April 21, 1892 (Coll.G.M.) One 
was captured “asleep”? at Rhyl, a few years ago [R.N. ] 
There are two in Sir Pvers Mostyn’s collection at Talacre 
(one adult and one immature.) 
Order HERODIONES. 
** Ardea cinerea. Common HERON. 
In Wirral “not uncommon. There was formerly a Heronry 
at Hooton, which may still exist there. There is a small one 
at Burton.” (Br. p. 11.) This latter has disappeared, but I 
remember it well in 1867. 
An account of its breeding places in Cheshire and North 
Wales is published in the present volume (p. 234), by Mr. R. 
NEWSTEAD, with many interesting notes on its natural history 
(p. 226.) 
[Ardea purpurea. Purple HERON. 
A specimen killed on April 7, 1887, near Alderley Edge, 
Cheshire, but outside the boundary of our district, is now in the 
collection of CoLONEL Drxon, of Astle Hall, Chelford. It is 
noted in the Zoologis¢, November, 1887, xi., 432-] 
Ardea ralloides. Souacco HERon. 
In the late Mr. J. Price’s ‘Bewick’ the following note 
occurs, which Dr. STOLTERFOTH has kindly copied for me :— 
‘One killed near Furnace, on the Conway, -July 21, 1828, by 
Rosert WILLIAMS, miller; length 1 ft. 10 in., breadth 2 ft. 11 in., 
now in British Museum. ‘Both mandibles yellow’ (Bewick.) 
Note: blue in my specimen ; white underneath.’ 
