584 ARDEIM. 



Another was shot in April, 1844, in the fish-pond of the 

 Rev. J. C. Crowley, at St. John's, Cornwall, as recorded 

 in the Zoologist, vol. ii. page 575. 



One example has been killed near Christchurch, Hants, 

 arid three, as having been killed in Sussex, are recorded 

 by Mr. Wm. Borrer and Mr. Knox ; the last of these, a 

 male, shot by Serjeant Carter near Appledram Sluice, in 

 September, 1851, is now in the collection of the Bishop of 

 Oxford at Lavington. A beautiful specimen was shot at 

 Blackpool, on the west coast of Lancashire, in June, 1853 ; 

 and an example of this rare bird was shot in May, 1855, 

 on a pond at Birdsall, near Mai ton, by the keeper of H. 

 Willoughby, Esq., for whose collection it was preserved. 



Specimens have been obtained in France, Spain, Por- 

 tugal, Provence, and Italy. Adult specimens of the 

 Night Heron are seen in spring at Candia, Malta, Sicily, 

 and Corfu. In autumn they are seen on their return to 

 Africa, with their young birds of the year. 



The Zoological Society have received specimens from 

 Erzeroum, and M. Mene tries found it near the Caspian 

 Sea. It has also been brought by different naturalists 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. It inhabits Nepal, and 

 the country about Calcutta, is said to be tolerably common 

 in the Upper Deccan, and is found in China and Japan. 



The adult Night Heron has the beak nearly black above 

 and at the point ; the base of the lower mandible and the 

 naked skin around the eyes, green ; the irides crimson ; 

 the top of the head and the back of the neck black ; the 

 elongated occipital plumes white, and generally three in 

 number, but in very old birds the number is greater, and 

 as many as ten are said to have been counted ; scapulars, 

 interscapulars, and back, nearly black, glossed with 

 green ; wings, wing-coverts, all the quill -feathers, second- 

 aries, tertials, and tail-feathers, ash grey ; throat and neck 



