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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
150. Ardetta minuia. Little Bittern. 
A rather rare occasional summer visitor, which has 
chiefly occurred in the New Forest district. 
In the Hart collection are specimens procured in the 
district in May, 1868, and April 22nd, 1878. 
Mr. Hart says that it has also probably nested in that 
locality, for he has procured a young one with down still 
adhering to the tips of the feathers. 
One was obtained at Hilsea in 1851^; one at Fording- 
bridge in April, 1869; one was killed at Heron Court, on 
April 26th, 1 862 ; and another, a male, was shot on the 
River Stour there on June 9th, 1893 — both these latter 
specimens are in the Earl of Malmesbury's collection. 
In the Isle of Wight Bury^ mentions one obtained 
there on the authority of Mr. Butler, and Mr. A, V. Willett 
has a record of one shot at Blackgang in 1897. 
Genu S — Nycticorax, 
151. Nycticorax griseus, Night-Heron. 
An accidental visitor. 
Messrs. Hart and Meade- Waldo class this species as 
an occasional visitor during summer and autumn, but we 
think that the specimens which have been procured in the 
county are hardly numerous enough to consider it other 
than an accidental visitor, and certainly not a common one. 
' West in «* Naturalist." 1856. ^ "Zoologist." 1845. 
