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Malmesbury, however, has told us that some few pairs of 
birds still nest on the estate, probably scattered, single 
nests in Scotch firs. 
HINTON ADMIRAL. 
A new heronry has of late years been established on 
Sir George Meyrick's estate at Hinton Admiral, and he 
has kindly informed us that they first came there some 
thirty years ago, and have been always carefully protected, 
never being allowed to be disturbed during the nesting 
season, nor the wood near the nesting trees to be cut at 
any time. About twenty pairs nested there in 1904, the 
nests being built in Scotch firs, close to a pond on 
the estate ; and when Munn visited the place in January, 
1905, a few pairs of the old birds were about, and one 
nest was certainly being repaired. 
In the Central Hill District. 
None of the heronries here are of any size. 
MOTTISFONT. 
The colony at Mottisfont is perhaps the largest in this 
district, and built in tall Scotch firs growing in marshy 
ground close to the River Test. Mrs. Barker-Mill writes 
that it must have been in existence for a very long time, 
and now consists of from twenty to twenty-five nests. 
WOLMER FOREST. 
There was no heronry here in Gilbert White's time, 
because there were no trees until about 1825. In his 
twenty-second Letter to Pennant (1769) he remarks that a 
heronry is a curiosity which he could never manage to see. 
" Fourscore nests," he adds, " of such a bird in one tree 
