ARDEIDZ. 371 
THE GREAT WHITE HERON. 
ARDEA ALBA, Linnzus. 
The Great White Heron is a rare visitor to Great Britain, and it 
would appear from Mr. J. H. Gurney’s careful revision (Tr. Norfolk 
Soc. v. p. 186) that out of thirty-two “records,” only five examples 
are authenticated or available for examination. Two of these were 
obtained in Yorkshire, and one of them is in the Museum of the 
county city ; one, killed in East Lothian on June 9th 1840, is in 
the collection of the Earl of Haddington at Tyninghame House ; 
one (with the long back-plumes) shot on Thorney Fen, Cambridge- 
shire, is now in the possession of Col. Charles Isham Strong, of 
Thorpe Hall, Peterborough; and one, killed at Loch Katrine, 
Scotland, in May 1881, and also having the dorsal-train fully 
developed, is in the Edinburgh Museum. Others are said to have 
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