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been long since established as only a very fine adult specimen of Nycticorax griseus. In the 

 same winter of 1824, according to some notes recently supplied me by Mr. Rising, of Horsey, no 

 less than three specimens of this Heron were killed on the North Denes, at Yarmouth ; and 

 another, in his own collection, was shot by his father about two hundred yards from the front of 

 his residence at Horsey in April 1827. Since that time this species has become an extremely 

 rare visitant to our coast, the only recent instance to my knowledge being an immature bird 

 killed on the 8th of November 1860, in the Caister marshes near Yarmouth." According to 

 Mr. Cordeaux a specimen was killed a few years ago near Cottingham, about five miles from 

 Beverley, Yorkshire ; and Mr. Hancock says it is a very rare and casual visitant to Northumber- 

 land and Durham. One was shot (fide T. H. Gibb, Berw. Natur. Club, 1870, p. 174) on the 24th 

 November near the confluence of the Cawledge burn with the Aln. In Scotland it is also seldom 

 seen. Sir William Jardine states that two were shot by the Earl of Home, near Coldstream, in 

 1823 ; and one in his own collection was killed on the banks of the Cluden, in Dumfriesshire, in 

 1825. Mr. Robert Gray records the occurrence of one at Menie, about eight miles north of 

 Aberdeen, on the 9th of January 1866 ; and he adds that his friend the late Dr. R. D. Thomson 

 mentions it as a rare visitor to the parish of Eccles, in Berwickshire. 



In Ireland, Thompson says (B. of Irel. ii. p. 173), "it is of very rare occurrence. One 

 which I saw in the shop of Mr. Glennon, bird-preserver, Dublin, in March 1834, and noticed 

 in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for that year (p. 30), was stated by him to have 

 been sent in fresh condition from Letterkenny, in the county of Donegal. It was at the same 

 time mentioned that two or three other examples, killed in Ireland, had been sent to him. 

 Subsequently he informed me of the occurrence of another individual." 



There is a single instance of the occurrence of the Night-Heron in the Fseroes, an immature 

 male having been shot at Nordedhal, on the island of Stromoe, in July 1870 ; but, so far as I 

 can ascertain, it has not straggled so far as Norway or Finland ; but Dr. Sundstrom informs me 

 that a young female was shot in Skane, Sweden, in 1863 ; and it is said to be of but rare occur- 

 rence in Central Russia. Artzibascheff, however, states that it is very common on the Lower 

 Volga, especially near the mouth of that river. It is much less frequently found on the Sarpa. 



In Poland, according to Mr. Taczanowski, it passes regularly in summer, and is, as a rule, 

 rare, though in some seasons tolerably numerous. In North Germany it used formerly to be by 

 no means uncommon, and it is stated to breed there now and again, but not regularly. Some 

 years ago about eight pairs bred on the Seeburger Lake, near Gottingen, but were shot down. 

 Boeck obtained two pairs in Prussia about the middle of May. According to Naumann (Naturg. 

 Vog. Deutschl. ix. p. 155) it nested formerly in abundance in the Spreewald, in Niederlausitz, 

 but is now no longer found there ; and some years previously several pairs bred in a heronry near 

 Oderberg ; but the Cormorants took possession of this nesting-place, and drove out both them 

 and the Herons. At present, Mr. Schalow writes (J. f. O. 1876, p. 17), it is only a straggler to 

 Mark Brandenburg from the south-east. Schulz obtained one from Neumark ; there is a spe- 

 cimen from Mark in a small collection at Grunewald ; and a female from Spandau is in the 

 Berlin Museum. 



According to Collin there are several instances of its occurrence in Denmark. One was shot 

 at Neunriinster, in Holstein, in May 1821 ; and about the same time Teilmann shot one at Ribe ; 



