THE HBEON. 
157 
Templeton notices a specimen in the Dublin Museum_, wliicli 
was shot in the harbour of Cork in 1792/^ In the edition of 
PennanCs British Zoology^ published in 1812, it is stated, that 
one was shot in Ireland in 1793,^^ vol. ii. p. 21. A note made 
by Mr. E. Dowden, many years ago, when he was connected with 
the Eoyal Cork Institution, states, that an Ardea garzetta, which 
came fatigued to Kerry, was shot there, and presented to the 
institution by Colonel Godfrey. It is added, that Mr. Charles 
Carrol had informed him of another individual procured at Myr- 
tleviUe, and sent to the Eoyal Dublin Society. 
Very few egrets have been obtained in England, and none in 
Scotland. {Jard. Macg.) 
The Gkeat White Heeon. — Ardea alba, Linn, which is about 
equally rare with the egret in England, is not known to have visited 
Ireland. Nor was it proven to have been met with in Scotland in 1842, 
when Sir William Jardine’s third volume on British Birds appeared. 
See p. 135. 
The Ardea hubulcus, Cuv. {A. russata of British authors*) cannot 
be placed in the Irish catalogue ; but, according to the views of 
Schlegel, may be the species included in the English one, from the oc- 
currence of a single specimen. 
On the 29th of April, 1841, one of the officers of H.M.S. Beacon, 
brought me a bird of this species, which he had just shot in a marsh 
bordering the bay of Navarino. When walking over the now desolate 
island of Delos, on the 1st of June that year, I raised a small white 
heron, with a buff-coloured back, which was believed to be specifically 
the same. Such also I conclude is the heron — “ reddish-brown on 
the back ; cream-coloured elsewhere ” — described to me by Mr. 
Wilkinson, jun., Yice-Consul at Syra, as announcing, by its call, 
the arrival of the quails, which it always accompanies to that island, on 
their autumnal migration to the southward ; — both species are said to 
remain only one day in Syra. 
See Schlegel “ Rev. Grit; des Oiseaux d’Europe,” p. 102. 
