LITTLE HERON. 
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of its having been killed here : three specimens, 
however, were shot in Devonshire during the year 
1 808, one of which was a female ; and in the 
winter of 1805, one was killed at Sunda, one of 
the Orkney islands. 
The eggs are deposited in a kind of nest, con- 
sisting of a few dried leaves and rushes; they 
are about the size of those of a Blackbird ; are 
five or six in number, and white. The nourish- 
ment of this bird consists of small fishes, frogs and 
their fry, insects, and worms. 
One of the above-mentioned Devonshire spe- 
cimens of this bird is in the British Museum. 
