HERONS. 147 



Fam. ARDEIDiE. 



GEEAT WHITE HEEON. Ardea alba, Linnaeus. 

 Hab. South-eastern Europe ; India ; North Africa. 



One or more seen in England, about 1678 : Willughby, 



Ornithology, p. 379, pi. 49. 

 One, Cumberland, " some years since " (1834) : Latham, Gen. 



Hist. Birds, vol. ix. p. 84. 

 One seen near Aveton Giffard, on the Avon, Devon, autumn 



1805 : Montagu, Orn. Diet. 

 One, Loch of Strathbeg, spring 1816: Edward, Naturalist, 



1854, p. 343. 

 One on the Isis, Oxfordshire, Sept. 1833 : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. 



Birds, ii. p. 551. 

 Two seen, rivers Stour and Orwell, Oct. 1834 : Shepherd and 



Whitear, Cat. Norfolk and Suffolk Birds; Trans. Linn. 



Soc. vol. XV. p. 40*. 

 Two seen, coast of Banff, about 1834 : Edward, Zoologist, 



1860, p. 6847. 

 One, Hornsea Mere, Yorkshire, winter 1831 : Strickland, 



Report Brit. Association, 1838, p. 106 ; Holme, Zoologist, 



1856, p. 5035. In the collection of the late Mr. Strickland. 

 One near Beverley, Yorkshire, about 1836 : Strickland, /. c. 

 One near Osberton : Strickland, /. c. In the collection of 



Mr. Foljambe. 

 One, Lincolnshire : YarreU, op. cit. 

 One, Tyninghame, Firth of Forth, June 1840 1 : Yarrell, op. 



cit. ; Turnbull, Birds of East Lothian, p. 43. 



* These may have been the same bird seen twice. 



t This specimen was examined in the flesh by MacgiUivray, who 

 has figured the head in his ' Hist. Brit. Birds,' vol. iv. p. 460, under 

 the name of Egretta nigrirostris. 



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