ARDEIDE. 379 
THE NIGHT-HERON. 
Nycrfcorax GrfsEus (Linnzus). 
The first specimen of the Night-Heron recorded in England was 
shot near London in May 1782; since which time many examples 
have been obtained in the British Islands, and the species may be 
considered as an almost annual visitor in spring andautumn. In the 
south-western counties it would probably have bred, if unmolested, 
for in ‘The Zoologist’ (p. 2528), the late Rev. C. J. Bulteel gave 
details of his unrivalled success in destroying eight adult birds—four 
males and four females—in Devonshire, between May 23rd and 
June 22nd 1849. Both old and young have been taken along the 
south coast as far west as Cornwall; more than twenty in the 
eastern counties, and a good many inland ; fewer from Yorkshire 
northward ; while to the western side of the island its visits have 
been infrequent. In Scotland, four occurrences in the south, one in 
Aberdeenshire, several in Argyllshire, and one in the Outer Hebrides 
