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ARDEID.E. 



GRALLATORES. 



ARDEIDJE. 





THE LITTLE EGRET. 



Ardea garzetta. Egret Heron, 

 The Egret, 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 21. 

 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 96. 



The Little Egret, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 18. 

 Little Egret Heron, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 21. 



,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 187. 

 The Little Egret, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. v. 

 Heron Garzette, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 574. 



Pennant says, " We once received out of Anglesey the 

 feathers of a bird shot there, which we suspect to be the 

 Egret ; this is the only instance, perhaps, of its being recently 

 found in England. One was shot in Ireland in the year 



