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country by late authors, as he could prove on unquestion- 

 able authority that it had been killed of late years in more 

 cases than one. The first instance was twelve or thirteen 

 years ago : a bird of this species was seen for some weeks 

 about Hornsea Moor, in the East Biding of Yorkshire ; it 

 was some time after presented to the author, in whose col- 

 lection it is at present, in perfect preservation. Another, 

 in full summer plumage, was killed by a labourer in the 

 fields of James Hall, Esq., of Scarborough, near Beverley, 

 about three years ago, and is now in the possession of that 

 gentleman. Another specimen of this bird is in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Foljambe, of Osberton, with a label on the 

 case stating it to have been killed near that place. A care- 

 ful examination of these specimens will, Mr. Strickland has 

 no doubt, prove that this bird is properly separated from 

 the large Egret of North America, which has been fre- 

 quently placed in our collections for the British species." 

 To these I may add a notice of one killed in Lincolnshire, 

 but where the specimen is deposited I do not know ; and 

 lastly, Mr. Frederick Holme sent me the measurements of 

 a specimen shot on the Isis in Oxfordshire, in September 

 1833. 



A splendid specimen of the Great White Egret was 

 killed in June 1840 on the sands near the village of 

 Tyningham, in the Frith of Forth, about seven miles from 

 Haddington. 



This beautiful species of Heron was included in the 

 Swedish Fauna by Linnaeus and Retzius, who say of it, 

 Habitat in Scania, visa ad Araslof. M. Nilsson, who is 

 now Professor of Natural History at Lund, the capital of 

 Scania, says, in his Ornithology of Sweden, vol. ii. p. 38, 

 that it has not been found there since within his knowledge. 

 It is an accidental visiter to Germany, France, Provence, 



