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able authority that it had been killed of late years in more 

 cases than one. The first instance was twelve or thirteen 

 years ago : a bird of this species was seen for some weeks 

 about Hornsea Moor, in the East Riding of Yorkshire ; it 

 was some time after presented to the author, in whose 

 collection it is in perfect preservation. Another, in full 

 summer plumage, was killed by a labourer in the fields of 

 James Hall, Esq., of Scarborough, near Beverley, about 

 three years ago, and is now in the possession of that gentle- 

 man. Another specimen of this bird is in the collection 

 of Mr. Foljambe, of Osberton, with a label on the case 

 stating it to have been killed near that place. A careful 

 examination of these specimens will," Mr. Strickland has 

 no doubt, "prove that this bird is properly separated from 

 the large Egret of North America, which has been fre- 

 quently placed in our collections for the British species." 

 To these I may add a notice of one killed in Lincolnshire, 

 but where the specimen is deposited I do not know ; and 

 lastly, Mr. Frederick Holme sent me the measurements of 

 a specimen shot on the Isis in Oxfordshire, in September, 

 1833. 



A splendid specimen of the Great White Heron was 

 killed in June, 1840, on the sands near the village of 

 Tyningham, in the Frith of Forth, about seven miles from 

 Haddington. 



This beautiful species of Heron was included in the 

 Swedish Fauna by Linneus and Retzius, who say of it, 

 Habitat in Scania, visa ad Araslof. M. Nilsson, Pro- 

 fessor of Natural History at Lund, the capital of Scania, 

 says, in his Ornithology of Sweden, vol. ii. p. 38, that it 

 has not been found there since within his knowledge. It 

 is an accidental visitor to Germany, France, Provence, 

 and Italy. Has been taken in Corsica and Sardinia ; but 

 is more common among the islands of the Grecian Archi- 



