GREAT WHITE HERON 19 
Beak. Yellow. 
FEET. Greenish-yellow ; toes, very long. 
Tripes. Yellow. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH ... ... oo In. Female smaller. 
WING oe et era ie 15 are 
BEAK ae er PRO a 
T'ARSO-METATARSUS at Ores 
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Allied Species and Representative Forms.—A. manillensis, 
with no stripes on the fore-neck, is the Kastern representative. 
GREAT WHITE HERON. Ardea alba (Linneus). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
22; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. vi, pl. 398; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. vii, pl. 6. 
Many of the notices regarding the occurrences of the 
Great White Heron in our Isles are unsubstantiated, more- 
over this species seems to have been confounded on several 
occasions with the Spoonbill. 
In the ‘ Transactions’ of the Norfolk Natural History 
Society, v, p. 186, Mr. J. H. Gurney has shown that there 
are but five well-authenticated British specimens on record. 
These are :—Two taken in Yorkshire; viz., one from Horn- 
sea Mere in the winter of 1821, the other from Beverley, in 
1835 (Strickland). The former is preserved in the York 
Museum. 
The third specimen was procured at T'yninghame, Firth 
of Forth, in June, 1840 (Turnbull, ‘ Birds of Kast Lothian,’ 
p. 42). This specimen is preserved in the collection of the 
Karl of Haddington. 
The fourth was obtained on Thorney Fen, Cambridge- 
shire, in June, 1849; it is preserved in the collection of 
Colonel Strong, Thorpe Hall, Peterborough. 
The fifth, a comparatively recent example, came from 
Loch Katrine, Perthshire, in May, 1881. (Journ. Roy. 
Phys. Soc. Edin. ix, p. 568.) It is preserved in the Edin- 
burgh Museum. 
