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that it rose from some rather boggy gromid at the 

 back of the town — that he shot at it and wounded 

 it, but it flew on towards the sea ; and as it was 

 getting rather late he did not find it till next morn- 

 ing, when he found it dead near the place he had 

 marked it down the night before. It was in conse- 

 quence of going to look up this bird that I found 

 the Greenland Falcon before mentioned, which 

 had been shot by the same person. These are 

 all the instances I have been able to collect of the 

 occurrence of the Purple Heron in the Channel 

 Islands. 



It is, however, included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey, probably 

 on the authority of one of the earlier specimens 

 mentioned by Mr. MacCulloch. There is no speci- 

 men at present in the Museum. 



130. Squacco Heron. Ardeola corntita, Pallas. 

 French, "Heron crabier." — I have in my collection 

 a Guernsey-killed specimen of the Squacco Heron, 

 which Mr. Couch informed me was shot in that 

 island in the summer of 1867, and from inquiries 

 I have made I have no doubt this information is 

 correct. Mr. MacCulloch also writes to me to say, 

 "A Squacco Heron was shot in the Yale Parish 

 on the 14th of May, 1867, no doubt the one Couch 

 sent to you." This was duly recorded by me in 

 the ' Zoologist ' for 187^, and is, I believe, the first 



