THE HERON. 157 



Templeton notices " a specimen in the Dublin Museum, winch 

 was shot in the harbour of Cork in 1792." In the edition of 

 Pennant's British Zoology, published in 1812, it is stated, that 

 " one was shot in Ireland in 1793," vol. ii. p. 21. A note made 

 by Mr. R. Dowden, many years ago, when he was connected with 

 the Royal Cork Institution, states, that an Ardea garzetta, winch 

 came fatigued to Kerry, was shot there, and presented to the 

 institution by Colonel Godfrey. It is added, that Mr. Charles 

 Carrol had informed him of another individual procured at Myr- 

 tleville, and sent to the Royal Dublin Society. 



Very few egrets have been obtained in England, and none in 

 Scotland. {Jarcl. 31acg.) 



The Great White Heron. — Ardea alba, Linn, which is about 

 equally rare with the egret in England, is not known to have visited 

 Ireland. Nor was it pi-oven to have been met with in Scotland in 1842, 

 when Sir William Jardine's third volume on British Birds appeared. 

 See p. 135. 



The Ardea bubulcus, Cuv. (A. russata of British authors*) cannot 

 be placed in the Irish catalogue ; but, according to the views of 

 Schlegel, may be the species included iu the English one, from the oc- 

 currence of a single specimen. 



On the 29th of April, 1841, one of the officers of H. M.S. Beacon, 

 brought me a bird of this species, which he had just shot in a marsh 

 bordering the bay of Navarino. When walking over the now desolate 

 island of Delos, on the 1st of June that year, I raised a small white 

 heron, with a buff-coloured back, which was believed to be specifically 

 the same. Such also I conclude is the heron — " reddish-brown on 

 the back ; cream-coloured elsewhere " — described to me by Mr. 

 Wilkinson, jun., Vice-Consul at Syra, as announcing, by its call, 

 the arrival of the quails, which it always accompanies to that island, on 

 their autumnal migration to the southward ; — both species are said to 

 remain only one day in Syra. 



* See Schlegel " Rev. Crit: des Oiseaux d'Europe," p. 102. 



