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moves are at length nearer to their ancient home again. There are 
now about ten pairs building upon fir trees. There was nie see a 
colony at Dawlish, but it no longer exists. faLecnset 
Dorsetshire——One on Brownsea Island, near Poole ; Upton: 
near Wimborne; Bryanstone Park (Lord Portman); Admiston 
Hall, Kingston Lacy (Mr. Bankes); and Sherborne Park (Mr. 
G. D. W. Digby). 
Durham.—One at Ravensworth Castle (Lord Ravensworth); 
one at Sands, near Sedgefield; a small colony at Gainford, and 
another at Wycliffe. 
Essex.—One in Wanstead Park, on elms and wych elms (Lord 
Cowley). Twenty years ago the herons here tenanted some trees 
at a different spot in the park. They now occupy some tall elms 
and wych elms upon an island in the largest sheet of water. 
When I visited the place last there were about thirty pairs of birds. 
There is another heronry in this county, near Chelmsford, the seat 
of Sir John Tyrell. 
Flintshire—At Bodryddan, near St. Asaph, the seat of W. S. 
Conway, Esq., there is a large heronry in old elm trees. 
Glamorganshire.—There is a large colony at Hensol Castle (Mr. 
Fothergill, M.P.) in ash and maple trees; and others at Margam 
Abbey and Penrice Castle, in oak trees (Mr. Mansel Talbot). 
Hampshire.—One at Heron Court (Lord Malmesbury), and 
Vinney Ridge. Mr. Wise, in his ‘History of the New Forest, 
p. 273, says, “ They first took up their abode in Old Burley Wood, 
and then removed to Wood Fidley ; subsequently to Denny Lodge 
(1851) and finally to Vinney Ridge. In 1861 fifty pairs at least 
must have built in its tall beeches.” At Wolmer a small colony 
has lately established itself. Captain Feilden, who visited this 
heronry last spring, informed me that eight or ten pairs are building 
in Scotch firs on the brink of a swamp, and that they are strictly 
preserved. 
Herefordshire—The moor near Hay (Brecon), in a wood of 
large oaks (Mr. Penoyre). 
Kent.—Oneat Cobham Hall (Lord Darnley); Penshurst Park ; and 
Chilham Park, near Canterbury (Mr. Charles Hardy). Fifteen years 
ago upwards of eighty nests were counted in the latter heronry. 
_ Lancashire.—Ashton Hall, near Lancaster (Mr. Starkie, M.P.). 
The nests, about twelve or fourteen, are placed in lofty ash and 
- beech trees, in a wood called Crane’s Wood. Claughton Hall, 
