14 ORNITHOLOGICAL RAMBLES. 



LETTER II. 



" Just then, in sign she favoured their intent, 

 A long-winged heron great Minerva sent, 

 This, tho' surrounding shades obscured their view, 

 By the shrill clang and whistling wings they knew." 



POPE'S HOMER. 



Parham Its Situation A May Morning Cross-coun- 

 try Ride Wild Common Valley of the Arun 

 . Amberley Castle Wild-Fowl Haunts in Olden 

 Time Winter Floods Heronry invaded Value 

 of a Spy-glass Heron's Nest Its Warlike occu- 

 pant Another Nest Old Bird feeding its Young 

 Rooks versus Herons The Heron a calumniated 

 Bird Heron and Water Rat Winter Quarters 

 Genealogy of the Parham Heronry. 



I QUITE agree with you, that next to the falcons 

 themselves, the heron the noblest object of their 

 pursuit which in days of yore used to stand at 

 the head of the British game-list, has the strongest 

 claim to our protection. 



While the ranks of this patrician bird, so long 

 associated in our ideas with the old English hall 

 and baronial castle, are gradually disappearing 



