206 THE BIRDS OF COBNWAIiL. 



southern Europe, and an occasional straggler to Holland and the 

 north of Erance. 



Night Heron ; a casual visitor that may have bred in the 

 county ; nearly all the recorded specimens have been from the 

 west, including one from Scilly ; nests in Spain and sparingly in 

 France ; occasionally wanders as far north as the south of 

 Sweden ; an almost cosmopolitan bird. 



Little Green Heron ; the only British specimen of this bird 

 from tropical and temperate America was shot at Penrice, St. 

 Austell, on October 27th, 1889. 



Little Bittern ; a casual visitor of rare occurrence ; recorded 

 occasionally both in the east and in the west, including one at 

 Scilly in 1866, but not known in the middle of the county ; its con- 

 stant habit of skulking in secluded spots under thick cover may 

 have caused it to be overlooked ; on the continent its migration in 

 summer extends north to the Baltic and in winter south into 

 Africa. 



Common Bittern ; a winter visitor in very irregular 

 numbers occurring annually on snipe marshes and swampy 

 moors; particularly abundant in December, 1867, and in the 

 winter of 1890-91; recorded thrice from Scilly; a bird of 

 nocturnal habits, feeding at night and sitting close in thick reed 

 beds during the day; a resident in the warmer portions of 

 Europe and a summer straggler as far as the south of Norw^ay. 



American Bittern ; an accidental visitor from north and 

 central America ; the only Cornish example was shot at Tresamble, 

 Q-wennap, November 4th, 1873. 



White Stork ; an accidental visitor, probably from Holland, 

 where it breeds abundantly ; represented in the Cornish ornis by 

 a single specimen killed in the Land's End district in May, 1848. 



Black Stork ; an accidental visitor ; one shot on the Tamar 

 in November, 1831, one at Scilly in September, 1887, and another 

 in October, 1890 ; breeds sparingly from the south of Sweden to 

 the Danube and Black Sea and also in Spain; winters as far 

 south as the Cape. 



Glossy Ibis ; an occasional accidental autumn visitor to 

 Scilly and the west of the county; one specimen obtained at 

 Saltash, October, 1900, and another in November of the same 



