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bow-net that was hanging out to dry* by Ormesby Broad, 

 in December, 1820." In Sir William Hooker's MS., 

 however, although the same facts are stated, this bird is 

 said to have been taken on the llth of July, but I 

 have reason to believe that the former date is correct, 

 as Mr. Dowellf was informed by the present owner of 

 this specimen, the Rev. F. Ensor, of Lustleigh rectory, 

 Newton Abbot, Devonshire, that it was taken in the 

 the winter. It was captured alive, but as its proper food 

 was not known, and it refused to eat, it was killed after 

 a day or two, and its skin preserved. According to 

 SelbyJ " two of these herons were killed near Yarmouth 

 in the month of May, 1831," and judging from local 

 records there is no doubt that one at least of these birds 

 is the one now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection, and 

 formerly in the possession of Mr. Miller, of Yarmouth, 

 which, as stated by Messrs. Paget, was procured at 

 Oulton, near Lowestoffc, in the adjoining county. || Again 

 on the 12th of June, 1834, a second example appears to 

 have been obtained at either Ormesby or Filby, and 

 purchased by Captain Chawner, of Alton, Hants, at that 

 time collecting at Yarmouth ; and in the same month, 

 according to a note in the handwriting of the late 

 Mr. Lombe, another was shot on Lake Lothing, near 

 Lowestoffc. He also mentions one as killed near 

 Burlingham, Norfolk, but the date is not recorded. 



* Mr. Gurney informs me that to the best of his belief a squacco 

 heron was taken many years ago, in a fisherman's net spread on 

 the beach to dry at Lowestoft or Pakefield. 



f See a minute description of this bird by Mr. Dowell in the 

 "Zoologist "for 1843, p. 78. 



I "British Ornithology," vol. ii., p. 26 (note.) 



|| In the notes supplied me by Mr. Joseph Clarke, the date of 

 this bird is given as January 5th, but in this case the Messrs. 

 Paget and Selby are most probably correct. 



