THE ZooLocist—OcTOBER, 1872. 3265 
Northampton.—One at Althorpe (Earl Spencer); Milton, near 
Peterborough (Hon. G. Fitzwilliam); and Bulwick (Mr. Fryer). In 
the last-named heronry about thirty pairs build in high oak trees. 
Northumberland.—Chillingham Park (Earl of Tankerville) ; 
two at Harbottle Castle, Morpeth, in plantations of Scotch fir 
(Mr. P. F. Clennell). 
Nottinghamshire.—Thoresby Park (Earl of Manvers). A large 
colony at Clumber (Duke of Newcastle). 
Oxfordshire.—In March, 1872, five or six pairs were nesting in 
oak trees in Far Wood, Southleigh (Col. Harcourt). 
Shropshire.—One at the Mere, near Ellesmere. 
Somersetshire.—Picton (Earl of Carnarvon) ; Brockley Woods, 
near Bristol; and Knowle House, Dunster (Mr. J. Hole), about 
thirty nests on larch, in existence for fifteen years. 
Suffolk.—Herringfleet, near Lowestoft (Mr. Leathes) ; Cavenham 
(Mr. Waddington) ; and Henham Hall (Earl of Shadbroke). There 
were others formerly at Thrigby ; Norton Hall, near Loddon; and 
Blackheath, near Friston, in fir trees. 
Surrey.—Cobham Park (Mr. Harvey Coombe); Ashley Park, 
Walton-on-Thames (Sir Henry Fletcher); and formerly one at 
Oatlands, near Weybridge. 
Sussex.—One at Windmill Hill, Hurstmonceux (Mr. Curteis) ; 
one formerly in Park Wood, near Brede (Lord George Cavendish), 
and now in Souden’s Wood, Brede (Mr. Frewen), consisting of about 
400 nests upon oak and aspen ; and one at Parham. Concerning the 
last-named, the owner was good enough to write me in July last as 
follows :—*“ The heronry here consists of 117 nests, up to the 15th 
of April, mostly made of birch twigs, though they are built on fir 
trees ; after the first batch are able to fly, the old birds repair the 
nests for a second incubation, and the young birds, one or two 
years old, begin to make new nests, which are not nearly so large 
as the old nests: they rob the rooks’ nests to build their own, and 
frequent battles ensue between the herons and the rooks, who also 
rob the herons when they can. The ancestors of these herons are 
said to have been brought from Coity Castle, in Wales, by the 
falconer of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in Queen Elizabeth’s 
time, to Penshurst, from whence they migrated, about sixty or 
seventy years ago, to Mitchelgrove, near Worthing, and on the trees 
being cut there they came to Parham in 1832.” 
Warwickshire.—Warwick Castle (Earl of Warwick); Coombe 
