448 ARDEID.E. 



Norfolk. — Didlington, the seat of Colonel Wilson, 



Northampton. — Altliorpe, the seat of Earl Spencer. 



Northumberland. — Chillingham Park, the seat of Lord 

 Tankerville. 



Shropshire. — At the Mere, near Ellesmere. 



Somersetshire. — Picton, belonging to the Earl of Carnar- 

 von, and at Brockley Woods, near Bristol. 



Surrey. — Cobham Park, the Seat of H. Coombe, Esq. ; 

 and at Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames, the seat of Sir 

 Henry Fletcher, Bart. 



Warwickshire. — Warwick Castle, the seat of the Earl of 

 Warwick, 



Westmoreland. — Dalham Tower, the seat of Colonel 

 Wilson. 



Yorkshire. — One at the seat of R. Thompson, Esq. near 

 Boroughbridge ; another at Walton Hall, the residence of 

 Charles Waterton, Esq. ; and at Hutton, near Beverly, the 

 seat of Mr. Bethel. 



The Heron visits Scandinavia in summer, going occasion- 

 ally as far north as the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and the south 

 coast of Greenland ; it is found also in Russia and Siberia, 

 and southward over the European continent, being most 

 abundant in Holland. It is found in North Africa, at Ma- 

 deira, and is said to visit the Cape. The Russian naturalists 

 include it among the birds observed at the foot of the Cauca- 

 sus ; it inhabits India and Japan ; and Dr. Horsfield includes 

 it in his Catalogue of the Birds of Java. 



In the adult bird the beak is yellow, darkest in colour to- 

 wards the point ; the lore yellowish green ; irides yellow ; 

 head and cheeks greyish white ; the elongated occipital fea- 

 thers forming the plume dark slate blue ; upper surface of the 

 body and wings delicate French grey ; the wing-primaries 

 black ; the tail-feathers slate grey ; the neck white, varied in 

 front throughout its length with dark bluish grey, forming 



