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PURPLE HERON. 



CRESTED PURPLE HERON. PURPLE CRESTED HERON 

 AFRICAN HERON. 



Ardea purpurea, 



" caspica, PENNANT. MONTASU. 



" variegata, LATHAM. 



" rufa, LATHAM. 



" botaurus, GMELIN. 



" stellaris major, RAY. WILLOUGHBY. 



Ardea A Heron. Purpurea Purple-coloured. 



THE European range of the Purple Heron extends from 

 Holland, where Sir William Jardine has observed that it is 

 not uncommon France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and 

 Switzerland, to Russia, Turkey, Siberia, and the distant 

 borders of the Black and the Caspian Seas. In Africa also, 

 from Nubia to the Cape of Good Hope; and in Asia in 

 Tartary, India, and Java, and the Philippine Islands. 



Several specimens of this elegant and beautiful species have 

 been obtained: In Norfolk three or four, one of them in 

 May, 1830. In Yorkshire one, a male, at Temple Thorpe, 

 near Leeds, the 24th. of May, 1850; and one near Harpham, 

 in the East-Riding, on the Lowthorpe stream, one, if I may 

 be allowed a brief digression, of the best trout waters that I 

 know; and where, when I have been able to spare time for 

 an occasional holiday, I have, as one of the 'favoured few,' 

 thanks to the kindness of the St. Quintin family, had by no 

 means indifferent success in fly-fishing; as also in another 

 preserve on the same river, a little lower down. 



Anglers, or at all events that branch of the family to which 

 alone I belong, that which disdains every means of capture 

 but the artificial fly, are, it is perhaps too well known, apt, 



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