20 PELECANID#—ARDEID 
Order STEGANOPODES. family PELECANIDA. 
161. PHatacrocorax carBo (Linn.). Cormorant. 
Common on the coast throughout the year. <A few pair continue to 
nest at Flamborough. Also in a cave near Filey Brigg, and the north 
cheek of Robin Hood’s Bay. Has increased in numbers in recent years. 
162. PHALACROCORAX GRACULUS (Linn.). Shag. 
Not uncommon on the coast in spring and autumn. In 1898 a pair 
tried to nest at Flamborough, where considerable numbers used to breed, 
but were shot by the fishermen. 
163. SuLA BASSANA (Linn.). Ganmnet. 
Common off the coast during a great part of the year, but more 
particularly in the herring season. There is a strong migration to the 
south in the autumn and a return north in the spring. The gannet 
occasionally visits the upper waters of the Humber, and also has occurred 
inland both single and in small numbers. 
Order HERODIONES. Family ARDEIDA. 
164. ARDEA CINEREA, Linn. Heron. 
Resident and common; nesting in unimpaired numbers in old estab- 
lished Lincolnshire heronries, also in a few fresh localities. Plentiful on 
the coast in the autumn, and has been captured on several occasions 
at sea. 
165. ARDEA PURPUREA, Linn. Purple Heron. 
One, a young bird, in the Strickland collection, was shot at Flam- 
borough in 1833. One, spring of 1847, Lowthorpe, Driffield [‘ Zool.,’ 
1849, p. 2591]. Another, Hornsea Mere in 1863, in Sir H. 8. Boynton’s 
collection. In Lincolnshire a purple heron was shot at Hykeham on the 
river Witham, many years since, by the Rev. T. Metcalfe [Adrian in ltt.]. 
166. ArpDEA ALBA, Linn. Great White Heron. 
One, in the Strickland collection, was killed at Scorborough, Beverley, 
in the winter of 1834; and another in the winter of 1821 at Hornsea 
Mere. 
167. ARDEA GARZETTA, Linn, Little Egret. 
One, Aike-carr, near Beverley, in 1840 |‘ Zool.,’ 1884, p. 177, and ‘Zool.,’ 
1888, p. 302]. One recorded January 4th, 1881, shot at Hayburn Wyke, 
near Scarborough, was not a British killed specimen [‘ Zool.,’ 1889, p. 150, 
R. P. Harper]. 
168. ARDEA RALLOIDES, Scop. Squacco Heron. 
June 1861, one was shot from the branch of a walnut tree overhanging 
the lake of Fillingham Castle, near Gainsborough. It was set up by the 
late W. Adrian, of Lincoln. 
169. Nycrrcorax GRisEus (Linn.). Night Heron. 
November 26th, 1888, an immature example shot on the foreshore at 
Tetney, Lincolnshire coast; in Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh’s collection 
[‘ Zool.,’ 1889, p. 33]. 
