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HEBON. 
HERN. HERONSHAW. HERONSEWG-H. COMMON HERON. 
CRESTED HERON. 
Latham. Shaw. 
Linnaeus. 
Brissqn. 
Ardea cinerea> 
“ major , 
u cnstata. 
Ardea—A Heron, 
Cinerea —Ash-coloured—grey. 
Evert one who is acquainted, as who is not? with Miss 
Edgeworth’s ever entertaining stories—lacking, however, one 
thing, and that the one thing—a pervading religious principle 
-—will remember the ineffable contempt and indignation with 
which Sir Plantagenet Mowbray received the proposition of 
Marvel, the Lincolnshire farmer, to purchase the Heronry 
near Spalding. 
There, for I shall proceed to give a catalogue of all the 
Heronries in the kingdom extant and extinct, Toth great 
and small,’ so far as I can furnish a complete one, compiled 
for the most part from the pages of ‘The Naturalist,’ was 
formerly a very great one at Cressy Hall, the seat of the 
ancient Heron family, appropriately yclept. In that county 
others were or are at Manbv, near Brigg, the property of 
the Earl of Yarborough; Bownington, Skillingthorpe Wood, 
near Lincoln, and Swanpool. 
In Yorkshire, likewise, by the piece of water near Hems- 
worth, Pontefract; at Kirby Hall, near Boroughbridge, the 
seat of Bichard Thompson, Esq.; at Walton Hall, near 
Wakefield, the seat of Charles Waterton, Esq.; Watton 
Abbey, near Beverley, one of the seats of Bichard Bethell, 
Esq.; and Swanland, near Hull. Also at Scorbro’, near 
Beverley, one of the seats of Lord Hotham; and Scarthingwell, 
