GREAT WHITE EGRET. Ardea alba. 



Accidental visitor ; eight or ten English and Scotch occurrences. 

 Resident in Africa, India, Ceylon, Burma, and China. Summer visitor 

 to South-east Europe, Asia Minor, Palestine, Persia, Turkestan, South 

 Siberia, and Japan. Eastern examples are smaller than western ones. 



LITTLE EGRET. Ardea garzetta. 



Accidental visitor; half a dozen records (English and Scotch). Resident 

 in most parts of Africa, India, Ceylon, Burma, South China, and South 

 Japan. Summer visitor to South Europe, Palestine, Asia Minor, and North 

 China. Winter visitor to the INIalay Archipelago and North Australia. 



SQUACCO HERON. Ardea comata. 



Accidental visitor ; about forty records, including half a dozen Irish and 

 tvro Scotch. Resident in most parts of Africa. Summer visitor to South 

 Europe and Persia. 



BUFF-BACKED HERON. Ardea bubulcus. 



Accidental visitor ; two or three English records. Resident in most 

 parts of Africa, the south of the Spanish Peninsula, and Palestine. Most 

 Spanish birds migrate south in autumn. 



GREEN HERON. Ardea virescens. 



Accidental visitor ; only one British record (Cornwall). Summer visitor 

 to South Canada and the Northern States. Resident in tropical North 

 America. 



NIGHT-HERON. Ardea nycticorax. 



Rare summer visitor, but never allowed to breed. Resident in the 

 Tropics, and summer visitor to the subtropical parts of Europe, Asia, 

 Africa, and America. 



