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Monmouthshire. — Add, one at Treowen, near Monmouth, where 

 there were eighteen pairs in April, 1870. 



Norfolk. — For "Lord Bowers" read "formerly Lord Berners, 

 now Mr. Tyssen Amherst." At Earlham there were twenty-six 

 nests in 1871. Li addition to those mentioned, there are three 

 more small colonies in Norfolk, one at Stokesby, near Acle, the 

 others in the parishes of Westacre and East Walton. Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., informs me that he could not find one at Wolferton, 

 nor at Burnham Overy, but that in Lord Leicester's park adjoining 

 there are two nests. 



Shropshire. — Add, one at Plowden, near Bishop's Castle. 



Suffolk.— For "Earl of Shadbroke" read "Earl of Stradbroke." 

 Add, — On the right bank of the Blythe, between Blythborough and 

 Walbersvvick, there is a small heronry in a clump of tall firs, on 

 the property of Sir John Blois. In 1867 there was a colony in 

 Woolverston Park, on the right bank of the Orwell, belonging to 

 Mr. Berners, but in the spring of 1871 they crossed the river and 

 took up their quarters in Orwell Park, where the owner. Colonel 

 Tomline, protects them from all annoyance. Mr. H. F. Bailey, 

 who visited the park in December, 1872, counted about sixty or 

 seventy nests. The heronries which formerly existed at Thrigby, 

 and Norton Hall, near Loddon, were in the adjoining county, and 

 should have been noticed under the head of " Norfolk." 



Wiltshire. — A small colony of five or six nests in beech trees 

 exists in Longford Park, near Salisbury, the seat of Earl Radnor. 



Warwickshire. — For "Rugby" read " Ragley, near Alcester." 



Forkshire. — For " Newton, near Walton," read " Newton, near 

 Malton," and add — A heronry existed at Hotham, in the East 

 Riding up to the year 1819, the nests being placed in large Scotch 

 fir and ash trees, and persons are still living who used to climb up 

 to the nests to get the eg^s. There was a large heronry in Sutton 

 AVood, Sutton-upon-Derwent, a village about six miles from York, 

 but the birds left from continued persecution, and have not bred 

 there for some years. Li 1860 there were said to be about one 

 hundred nests there. Up to 1870 one or two pairs bred constantly 

 in a wood called Beswick Rush, near Scarborough, but in that year 

 the keeper destroyed both old and young birds, supposing them to 

 do injury to a trout-stream. Herons also nested in a wood at 

 Holme, on Spalding Moor, but ceased to do so about five years 

 ago. 



