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home, and put him in our carriage house, where he preferred to 
perch upon a high dog-cart. Here we fed him for about a 
fortnight, until we thought he had almost become strong 
enough to be restored to liberty, but one morning were vexed 
to find him lying dead upon the ground. We have often seen 
Herons perched upon the oak trees bordering one of our 
ponds. Here they would sit for some time before they 
descended to the shallow end of the pond in search of frogs 
and small fish or water-rats, and we believe they are expert 
catchers and devourers of these rodents. Some Herons nest 
upon the cliffs of the coast; we have already related how those 
at Poyntz Castle were dispossessed by Cormorants. The ejected 
Herons are stated to have migrated to Slebech, where they have 
formed a heronry. ‘There is a heronry at Llanmilo, near 
Pendine, just over the borders of the county in Carmarthen- 
shire, which, we are informed, consists of about thirty nests. 
Mr. Tracy mentions another at Linney Head, where the Herons 
nest in company with Cormorants and Guillemots. The nests, 
from six to twelve in number, are arranged side by side on the 
ledges of the rocks, and are quite inaccessible. 
LITTLE BITTERN, 4rdetta minuta.—A rare, occasional visitor ; 
only two or three instances. One in the collection of Mr. 
H. Mathias, and given by him with his other birds to Tenby 
Museum, was captured beneath the wheel of the mill, near 
Merlin’s Bridge, Haverfordwest. This was an adult. At the 
sale at Camrose House, in the summer of 1881, we noticed an 
immature Little Bittern in a case in one of the bedrooms. It 
was indifferently stuffed, and we could learn no particulars about 
it, but it had, probably, been obtained on the estate. There is 
also a specimen in Lord Cawdor’s collection, at Stackpole, that 
is said to have been procured in the county. 
NIGHT HERON, Wyeticorax griseus.—An occasional visitor. Mr. 
Dix writes that an immature specimen, in the Stackpole Court 
collection, was shot near Pembroke mill-pond by Mr. Tracy, 
