GKEAT WHITE HERON. 



GREAT WHITE EGRET. GREAT EGRET. 



Ardea alba, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" egretta, FLEMING. TEMMINCK. 



" Candida, BRISSON. 



" alba major, RAY. 



" egrettoides, GMBLIN. 



Ardea A Heron. Alba White. 



THE Great White Heron is, or has been, found, in various 

 parts of Europe occasionally, namely, in Germany, France, 

 Turkey, Hungary, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Greece, and the 

 Islands of the Grecian Archipelago, and in Sweden. In Asia, 

 likewise, in Asia Minor, India, Great Tartary, and the 

 neighbourhood of the Black and the Caspian Seas, and Persia. 



Of this species one was seen on the borders of the River 

 Avon, in Devonshire, in the autumn of the year 1805; three 

 or four of the Common Herons having been previously 

 observed in company with it. Another on the banks of the 

 River Stour, in Essex, on the 3rd. of October, 1834; one 

 having been also noticed in the spring on the Oakley shores, 

 as a third was subsequently, by the Rev. Revett Shepherd, 

 and the Rev. William Whitear, by the River Orwell. One is 

 mentioned by Montagu, on the authority of Dr. Latham, as 

 having been killed in Cumberland, and another as having 

 been seen by the Rev. Mr. Vaughan in Devonshire. In York- 

 shire, as communicated to the British Association, at their 

 session at Newcastle, in 1838, by Arthur Strickland, Esq., 

 one was seen about the year 1825, or 1826, at Hornsea 

 Mere, in the East-Riding. One at New Hall, shot by John 

 Townend, Esq.; the fact communicated by Dr. Farrar to Mr. 



