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examined and recorded by the late Mr. J. Gatcombe, killed 
at Countess Weir, on the Exe, on June 3rd, 1870, and belong- 
ing to Mr. E. H. Harbottle, of Topsham, near Exeter.” 
‘Tt is not improbable, however,” he continues, ‘that one 
Fic. 3.— LITTLE EGRET. 
has been obtained in Sussex; while the late Lord Lilford 
(B. Northamptonsh. u, p. 118) adduced some evidence that 
two were shot near Whittlesea about 1849.1 There is 
' In the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1901, pp. 70-71, Mr. R. Newstead, of the 
Grosvenor Museum, Chester, states that when overhauling the collection 
of birds belonging to the Chester Society of Natural Science, he found a 
Little Egret, labelled on the back of the case ‘“‘ Egret. Male. Shot 
March, 1826. near Paul Humberside, Yorkshire.’”’ In the same number 
of the ‘ Zoologist,’ p. 107, Mr. J. H. Gurney publishes the following 
criticism with regard to British-killed Egrets: ‘* In Loudon’s ‘ Magazine 
of Natural History’ for 1836, p. 599, Mr. J. C. Dale, of Glanvilles 
Wootton, in Dorsetshire, mentions that ‘‘ at a sale of birds, &c., I attended 
in March, 1826, at Southampton, was an Egret (a fine specimen), lot 38, 
