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HERON. 



KEEN. HEEOKSHAW. HEEONSEWGH. COMMON HEEON. 

 CEESTED HEEOtf. 



Ardea cinerea, LATHAM. SHAW. 



" major, LINN^US. 



" cristata, BRISSON. 



Ardea A Heron. Cinerea Ash-colouredgrey. 



EVEEY one who is acquainted, as who is not? with Miss 

 Edgeworth's ever entertaining stories lacking, however, one 

 thing, and that the one thing a pervading religious principle 

 will remember the ineffable contempt and indignation with 

 which Sir Plantagenet Mowbray received the proposition of 

 Marvel, the Lincolnshire farmer, to purchase the Heronry 

 near Spalding. 



There, for I shall proceed to give a catalogue of all the 

 Heronries in the kingdom extant and extinct, 'both great 

 and small,' so far as I can furnish a complete one, compiled 

 for the most part from the pages of 'The Naturalist,' was 

 formerly a very great one at Cressy Hall, the seat of the 

 ancient Heron family, appropriately yclept. In that county 

 others were or are at Manby, near Brigg, the property of 

 the Earl of Yarborough; Downington, Skillingthorpe Wood, 

 near Lincoln, and Swanpool. 



In Yorkshire, likewise, by the piece of water near Hems- 

 worth, Pontefract; at Kirby Hall, near Boroughbridge, the 

 seat of Richard Thompson, Esq.; at "Walton Hall, near 

 Wakefield, the seat of Charles Waterton, Esq.; Watton 

 Abbey, near Beverley, one of the seats of Richard Bethell, 

 Esq.; and Swanland, near Hull. Also at Scorbro', near 

 Beverley, one of the seats of Lord Hotham ; and Scarthingwell, 



