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My acknowledgments are due to Mr. Boyes, of Beverley, for the 

 trouble he has so kindly taken to obtain information for me. 



While on the subject, I may as well take the opportunity of 

 making a (ew corrections and additions to my list, as it appeared 

 in the 'Zoologist' for October last. 



England and Wales. 

 Herefordshire. — The heronry at the Moor, near Hay, I am 

 informed by Mr, J, W. Lloyd, of Kington, has unfortunately ceased 

 to exist. With regard to this and other heronries formerly existing 

 in Herefordshire, Dr. Bull has published the following remarks in 

 the 'Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club for 

 1869': — "It is yet within the memory of man that many heronries 

 existed in Herefordshire, although they have now become extinct. 

 There was one within a mile of the city of Hereford, on the fine 

 elms at the Moor. It gradually dwindled down to a single pair of 

 birds, and they disappeared about sixty years ago. There was also 

 a large heronry on elm trees at Newcourt, Lugwardine, about three 

 miles from the city, and some few tenants remained to so late a 

 period as 1853. There was a colony of herons occupying some 

 tall oak trees on the north-west side of Brampton Brian Park at the 

 beginni7)g of this century; but when the exigencies of war caused 

 the oak to be felled, the birds joined their neighbours at Willey 

 Lodge. When the Willey Lodge heronry was destroyed the herons 

 were said to have gone to Plowden, near Bishop's Castle, Shrop- 

 shire, where the number of birds was much increased at the time : 

 this heronry is still in existence. There was formerly a heronry, it 

 is said, at the Marsh Farm, Eaton Bishop, in the centre of the 

 county, and possibly others. But the heronry which existed in the 

 county to the latest period was in the Hawkswood, at the Moor, 

 near Hay, where the herons built on some tall oak trees. This 

 heronry was in the immediate vicinity of a rookery, and here might 

 be seen occasionally a curious border warfare between these very 

 different birds for the possession of some particular tree. This 

 heronry was a very large one np to about 1852, when a large fall of 

 timber disturbed the birds. In the year 1856 there were about a 

 dozen nests there, but the herons gradually diminished in numbers 

 until they were reduced to a single pair, which built there so lately 

 as 1863." 



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