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THE GREAT WHITE HERON. 



Ardea alba, Linnaeus. 



The Great White Heron is a rare visitor to Great Britain, and 

 only eight examples appear to be authenticated or available for 

 examination. Three of these were obtained in Yorkshire, and two 

 of them are in the Museum of the county city ; one, from near 

 Worksop in Nottinghamshire, is in the Foljambe collection, at 

 Osberton ; one was shot on the Isis in Oxfordshire, in September 

 1833 ; one, killed in the Frith of Forth on June 9th 1840, is in the 

 collection of the Earl of Haddington at Tyninghame House ; one 

 (with the long back-plumes) shot on Thorney Fen, Cambridgeshire, 

 is now in the possession of Mr. Charles Lsham Strong, of Thorpe Hall, 

 Peterborough; and one, killed at Loch Katrine, Scotland, in May 

 or June 1881 or 1882, and recorded in 'The Scottish Naturalist' as 

 a Little Egret, is in the Edinburgh Museum. Others are said to have 



