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was obtained at Kingsbury Reservoir in 1843, as 

 recorded in * The Zoologist ' for that year, and 

 Mr. Jaines Button, of Hammersmith, sent me word 

 that a fine Bittern was shot at Jessop's Ait, Chis- 

 wick, on the 7th January, 1854. About the same 

 time another was killed near Kew Bridge, by the 

 toll-keeper there. A fourth example occurred at 

 Redhill, in the parish of Hendon, during the winter 

 of 1856. This bird was shot at the brook running 

 through the field which adjoins " The Bald-faced 

 Stag," and either that winter or the following a 

 Bittern was killed at Stanniore by Mr. F. King. 



LITTLE BITTERN, Ardea minuta. Rare. Colonel 

 Montagu mentions one which was shot near London 

 in the month of May, 1782, and was placed in the 

 Leverian Museum. 



The Rev. L. Jenyns, in his ' Manual of British 

 Vertebrates,' records the occurrence of a specimen 

 at Uxbridge Moor, and adds that this bird has been 

 killed, in more than one instance, near London. 



A male Little Bittern, in good plumage, shot at 

 Elstree Reservoir in 1840, is in the collection of 

 Mr. Bond, and another, also a male, was more 

 recently obtained at Kingsbury Reservoir. The 

 capture of the last-named specimen is recorded in 

 ' The Zoologist' for 1843. On the 18th September, 

 1847, a Little Bittern was killed on the River Lea, 

 near Enfield, by a bargeman, and sent to Mr. Bond. 

 It was a young bird of the year, and from its 



