I'HE COMMON NERON. 
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Aust Malay Peninsula, though it has occurred in 
Proci'^^*'^' British Museum has a Bornean specimen, 
Eur Baram Fort in Sarawak. It breeds throughout 
south^^ south of about 60° N. lat., and migrates 
Afri visiting the Mediterranean countries and the 
bre *r?*^ .'^^’^linent, though even in this southern habitat it also 
nest * ®'^'table localities. In India and China it likewise 
the Although a very shy bird as a rule, the habits of 
ns w'lf easily watched during the breeding-season, 
Barr^ ft u interesting note given to me by Mr. 
^ '^‘Hamilton. Young birds are more often procured than 
them« T’ wary enough, but the young ones betake 
sea-c ^ ponds and the edges of inland lakes, and on the 
oftcn°^^^ the deep mud-gullies of our harbours, where it is 
the 1 them. I have sometimes shot them under 
the fe th^ *^woumstances with remains of down still adhering to 
West of T crest. They are not uncommonly seen in the 
ita _?odon, and sometimes pass quite low over my garden 
from n on their way to a pond not two hundred yards 
a ggy though the birds are not allowed to alight without 
elm-t fobbing from a pair of Jackdaws which nest in an 
Protp sends me the following note; — “When 
gg oted, the Heron is not at all shy during the breeding- 
clo5A*f’ ^ know of two or three heronries which are quite 
So ri ° bouses. Two of the nests in County Wexford are 
£rrenf°^^ ^ house that one can watch the birds with the 
pTp ^tid almost see into the nests. Occasionally the 
such annoyed by the visits of Hooded Crows, and at 
seen a^M j "Mignant Herons make a great clatter. I have 
the Her sitting on the top of a spruce-tree watching 
nerch which would every now and then leave its 
and stnrf when ‘caa-caa-caa’ would say the Crow, 
match for V and the ponderous Heron, being no 
to avoiH hie.'*, adversary in the air, would have to alight again 
dare not toi "'ben once he had done so, the Crow 
breedina-nlaLc ^°°bs, too, often annoy Herons at their 
6 P , and cause them to desert the latter. It is 
