3262 Tue ZooLocist—OcrToBER, 1872. 
Believing it to be very desirable that the statistics thus acquired 
should be published in a collected form in some Natural History 
journal of note, they are now presented to the readers of the 
‘Zoologist. Had my correspondents favoured me with more 
details as to the number of birds in their heronries, the species of 
tree selected for their nests, and their increase or decrease, and the 
cause, the list might have been considerably improved; but in 
most cases it was not easy to obtain this. So far then as I have 
been able to ascertain, the following heronries are, or lately were, 
existing in the British Islands, and for convenience they are 
alphabetically enumerated :— 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Berkshire —Two in Windsor Great Park; one in Coley Park, 
Reading (Mr. Monck). 
Bucks.—Harleyford (Sir W. Clayton). A pair of herons nested 
in an oak at Fawley Court a few years ago, but the young were 
taken, and they deserted the spot. 
Cambridgeshire.—One at Chippenham Park (Mr. Thorp). 
Cardiganshire.—One at Gogerddan (Sir Pryse Pryse). 
Cheshire.--One at Dunham Massey, near Altrincham (Lord 
Stamford) ; Combermere Abbey (Lord Combermere); Hooton-on- 
the-Mersey (Sir T. M. Stanley); Ardley Hall (Mr. Warburton); 
Oulton Park (Sir Philip Egerton); and Eaton Hall, near Chester 
(Marquis of Westminster). 
Cornwall.—A few pairs nest in Trenant Wood (Mr. Peel). 
Cumberland.—One in Gowbarrow Park, near Ulswater; one at 
Graystoke (Mr. Howard); one, consisting of forty or fifty nests, 
in Wythorp Woods, near Bassenthwaite Lake (Sir Henry Vane) ; 
and one at Gobay Park, near Penrith. 
Devonshire-—One at Powderham Castle, near Exeter (Earl of 
Devon); Sharpham-on-the-Dart (Mr. Durant); Warleigh-on-the- 
Tamar (Rev. Mr. Radcliff) ; single pairs build in the woods near 
Totnes (S. Hannaford); Bellever, Dartmoor (Mr. Templer), on 
larch trees: Fremington, near Barnstaple (Mr. Yeo); Shute Park, 
near Axminster (Sir J. G. Pole); and Pixton Park, near Dulverton 
(Mr. Dodington). This last-named heronry was formerly situated 
near Combe House, an ancient seat of the Sydenham family, in the 
parish of Dulverton. From thence the birds migrated to some 
woods on the Exe, on the eastern side of Pixton, but by successive 
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