DUTCH AND ENGLISH BIRDS, ot 
An occasional straggler to Holland in stormy weather. 
A resident, breeding on the rocky coasts of the Br. Isl. 
Order HERODIONES. 
Genus Ardea. 
Ardea cinerea Linn. 
A common resident in Holland and the Br. Islands. 
Ardea purpurea Linn. 
A common summer visitor in Holland in the south 
western provinces where is breeds. Rarer in other places. 
It breeds in reed covered marshes. The nests are found: 
in their favourite breeding places often in large numbers 
together. They are about three feet above the water and 
are made of the reed itself which is bent down so as to 
make a platform. The bluegreen eggs are almost invariably 
four in number and as the young vary very much in size 
in the same nest; it is quite probable that the old bird 
begins to incubate directly after the first egg is laid, and 
that she does not lay every day. 
A rare straggler to the Br. Isl. 
Ardea alba Linn. 
An accidental visitor to Holland and the Br. Isl. 
Ardea garzetta Linn. 
Of accidental occurrence in Holland and the Br. Isl. 
(Ardea bubulcus) Audouin. 
Ardea railoides Scopoli. 
A rare visitor on migration to Holland and the Br. Isl. 
Genus Ardetta. 
Ardetta minuta (Linn.). 
A regular summer visitant to watery reedgrown districts, 
where it breeds. A not very numerous visitor to the Br. Isl. 
Genus Nycticorax. 
Nycticorax griseus (Linn.). 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
