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Denbighshire. — There is a heronry at Vorlas Hall, in this county, 

 belonging to Mrs. Wynn Finch. 



Merionethshire. — One at Glyn Hall (Mr. Orrasby Gore), and a 

 few nests at Rug Hall (the Hon. Charles Wynn). 



Scotland. 



Fifeshire. — I am informed by Mr. W. Ogilvy that up to 1870 

 a pair of herons nested on his grandfather's property near Dollar, 

 in Fifeshire, the nest being built on a Scotch fir in the centre of a 

 thick wood. Since 1870 they have, he regrets to say, nested 

 elsewhere, but most probably in the vicinity, as they have been 

 frequently observed since then on the banks of the Devon, which 

 flows through the property, his brother having seen them nearly 

 every day since August of the past year. 



Inverness. — There is a colony consisting of about twenty pairs 

 on a small wooded island in Loch Knockie (Sir Shafto Adair). 



Ireland. 

 Cork.— Yox "Capt. R. Coole Bowen" read " Capt. R. Cole 

 Bowen"; and add — Kilbrittain Castle, about thirty nests on larch 

 trees (Col. Stowell), and one at Bunalan, near Skibbereen, in an 

 avenue with rooks. 



Donegal. — Add, One near Culmore, on the shore of Lough 

 Foyle. 



J. E. Harting. 



Large Otter. — Will Mr. Corbin favour us with the sex, weight and length 

 of the otter lie records in the 'Zoologist' (S. S. 3304)? The heaviest 

 Norfolk otter which has come to my knowledge (although by no means the 

 longest) was killed at Bowthorpe, near Norwich, on the 3rd of the present 

 month : it was a male, forty-eight inches long, weighed thirty-seven pounds, 

 and was very fat. A female with young ones, killed in February, 1864, 

 measured forty-four inches, and weighed only fourteen pounds, being in very 

 poor condition ; a male killed in 1866 weighed thirty pounds; a male killed 

 in January, 1871, frozen out and in a very emaciated condition, measured 

 fifty-three inches and a half, and weighed thirty pounds ; another, also a 

 male, killed on the 10th of last October, measured fifty inches and weighed 

 twenty-three pounds ; and a female killed on the 19th of November measured 

 forty-si.x inches and weighed sixteen pounds. An otter killed in Carmarthen- 

 shire, weighing fifty pounds and measuring sixty-six inches, is mentioned 

 in 'Laud and Water' (vol. ii. p. 51). — Thomas Southwell; Norwich, 

 December 26, 1872. 



