Crass II. 
Ardea. Garzetta. A. occipite 
cristato, corpore albo, rostro 
nigro, loris pedibusque vi- 
rescentibus. Lath. Ind. orn. 
EGRET HERON. 
Ardea alba minor. Raz Syn. 
av. OQ. 
Dwarf Heron. Barbot, 29. 
L’Aigrette. Brissonav. v. 431. 
694. ad. Syn. v. 90. Mist. @ots. vi. 372. Pl. 
Lesser White Heron. /Vil. Eni. 901. 
orn. 280. Kleiner Weisser Rager. Kram. 
Ardea Garzetta. Gm. Lin. 345. 
628. Arct. Zool. it. 147. 
WE once received out of Anglesey, the fea- 
thers of a bird shot there, which we suspect to 
be the Egret; this is the only instance perhaps 
of its being recently found in England. One 
was shot in Jreland in the year 1793. That 
it was formerly very frequent here, appears 
by some of the old bills of fare: in the famous 
feast of Archbishop Nevill, we find no less 
than a thousand Asterides,* Egrets or Egrit- 
tes, as it is differently spelt. Perhaps the 
esteem they were in as a delicacy during those 
days, occasioned their extirpation in our islands; 
abroad they are still common, especially in the 
southern parts of Murope, where they appear in 
flocks. 
The Egret is a most elegant bird; it weighs 
about one pound; the length to the end of the 
* Godwin de Presul. Angl. com. Leland’s Collect. 
6, Eerer. 
Descrip- 
TION. 
