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GREAT WHITE HERON. 
This species is rarely met with in England ; it was first described by 
Mr. Pennant from a specimen shot in Lancashire, and placed in the 
Leverian museum. It is said to have been met with in Kent ; and we 
are informed one was killed in Wiltshire, which weighed seven ounces 
and a half. 
It is possible this bird is sometimes killed together with the common 
species, and not discriminated by the sportsman, who only takes it for 
a fine large snipe. Dr. Latham assures us he saved one from the 
hands of the cook at a friend’s house, where, without discrimination, 
it was intended for the table with several of the common kind, and 
that it is now in his museum. 
In the second supplement to the General Synopsis, the Great Snipe 
and the Savanna Woodcock are, we think, very judiciously brought 
together, an arrangement which we have also adopted for this work ; he 
also gives a very full description, from a recent subject, shot in Suffolk 
in the month of September, and which exactly corresponds with a 
specimen in our collection. 
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER.— A name for theWhitwall. 
GREAT TITMOUSE. — A name for the Ox-eye. 
GREAT WHITE HERON (Ardea Egretta, LiNNiEus.) 
*Ardeaalba, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 239. 24. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 639. — Tnd. Orn. 2. p. 
695. 65. — Ardea alba major, Rail, Syn. p. 99. A. 4. — Will. p. 205. t. 49. — 
Ardea egretta, Temm. 2. p. 572. — Flem. Br. Anim. p. 95. — Ardea Candida, 
Briss. 5.p.428. 15. — Ih. 8vo. 2. p. 322. — Le Heron blanc, Buff. 7. p. 365 — 
Great White Heron, Br. Zool. 2. p. 175. t. 62. — lb. fob 117. — Arct. Zool. 2, No, 
234. — Ib. Supp. p. 66. — Will. (Angl.) p. 279. t. 49. — Lath. Syn. 5. p. 91. 60. 
■ — Lewin’sBr. Birds, 4. t. 150. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Bewick’sBr. Birds, 2.p. 13. 
— Wilson^s Amer. Orn. 7. p. 107. 
This elegant bird can only be considered as a straggler; one instance 
only of its occurrence in this country being recorded. It is described 
by Wilson as being a very shy timid bird, and very difficult to be pro- 
cured. “ Its principal residence,” he says, “ is in the regions of the 
south, being found from Guiana, and probably beyond the line to New 
York. Its favorite haunts are in vast inundated swamps, rice fields, the 
low marshy shores of rivers, and such like places, where, from its size 
and colour, it is very conspicuous at a great distance. 
This bird measures four feet from the extremities of the wings, and 
three feet six inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail ; the 
train extending seven or eight inches' further ; this train is composed 
of a great number of long thick tapering shafts, arising from the lower 
parts of the shoulders, thinly furnished on each side with fine flow- 
ing hair like threads, of several inches in length, covering the lower 
part of the back, and falling gracefully over the tail, which it entirely 
conceals ; the whole plumage being of a snowy whiteness, except the 
