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SQUACCO HERON. 



RED-LEGGED HERON. DWARF HEBO2T. SENEGAL BITTEEX. 

 SWABIAX BITTERN. SQUAIOTTA HERON. CASTAKEOUS HEROX, 



Ardea senega/ensis, GMKI.IN. 



" ralloiden, SCOPOLI. 



" comuta, PALLAS. 



" squalotta, GMELIN. 



" castanea, GMELIN. 



" erythropus, var. fr LATHAM. 



" pumi/a, LATHAM. 



" marsigK, G.MKLIN. 



Cancrofagus rvfus, BRISSON. 



" * luttus, Bmssox. 



Ardea A Heron. SenegalensisOf Senegal. 



THIS kind appertains to Europe, being found in Turkey, 

 Hungary, Sclavonia, Italy, Greece, and its islands; France, 

 and Sicily; also at times in Switzerland, Silesia, Germany, 

 and Holland; likewise to Asia in Persia, Syria, and Arabia, 

 and along the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea, in which 

 region it is abundant; and to Africa in Nubia and Egypt. 



In Yorkshire one of these birds was killed on the low 

 grounds below Askern, in the West-Biding; other specimens 

 have occurred in various other counties one in Devonshire, 

 near Kingsbridge, in July, 1840, as also in Somersetshire, in 

 1825, near Bridgewater. In Cornwall, one near Penzance, 

 about the year 1844, and one seen at Hayle a few days 

 after; one at Scilly in the autumn of 1842; also in Devon- 

 shire; Hampshire; Wiltshire, where one was shot at Boy ton 

 by Mr. Lambert, in 1795. Suffolk; Norfolk, where one of 

 those procured had entangled itself in a fishing-net, hung up 

 to dry, by Onnesby Broad, in December, 1820. Bewick 



