COMMON HEEON. 



ARDEA CINEREA, Linn. 



Ardea cinerea, Limi. S. N. i. p. 236 (1766) ; Naum. ix. p. 24, 

 xiii. p. 255 ; Macg. iv. p. 440 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 310 ; 

 Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 162; Dresser, vi. p. 207. 



Heron, French; Fisch-Reiher, German; Garza, Spanish. 



This fine bird still holds its own in our country, and 

 although no longer rigorously protected for the purposes 

 of falconry, and subject to the persecution of fisli- 

 preservers and bird-stuffers, the " Heronshaw," as it is 

 still often called by our country-people, is fortunately 

 too wary a bird to be easily exterminated, and will, we 

 trust, long remain as a very remarkable natural orna- 

 ment to the beauty of our incomparable British river 

 and lake-scenery. 



