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HERON. 
In Cumberland, at Gowbay or Gowbarrow Park, near 
Ulls water; and Grey stock, both near Penrith. 
In Hampshire, at Denny Lodge, in the Hew Forest; and 
formerly at Heron Court, the seat of the Earl of Malmesbury; 
as also at Harringworth, on the estate of Thomas Tyon, Esq. 
In Essex, in Wan stead Park. 
In Nottinghamshire, at Colnwick, near Nottingham, the 
seat of — Musters, Esq. 
In Northumberland, Chillingham Park, the seat of the 
Earl of Tankerville. 
In Cornwall, at Trenant Wood, the seat of W. Peel, Esq. 
In Shropshire, at the Mere, near Ellesmere. 
In Leicestershire, at Stableford, near Melton Mowbray, on 
the estate of Lord Harborough; and a pair built about the 
year 1812 in a wood called Mere Hill, in the Lordship of 
Prestwold, the seat of Mr. Packe, M.P., but the nest being 
taken, the birds forsook the place. 
In Somersetshire, at Picton, the property of Lord Carnarvon; 
and at Brocklev woods, near Bristol. 
In Herefordshire, at the Moor, near Hay, the seat of Mrs. 
Penoyre. 
In Wales, in Glamorganshire, at Margam Abbey, and 
Penrice Castle. 
In Anglesea, near Holyhead and the Great Orme’s Head. 
In Flintshire, at Bodrydden, near St. Asaph, the seat of 
William Shipley Conway, Esq. 
In Scotland, on the Island of Islajq in Kincardineshire, at 
Inglesmaldie, Fettercairn, the Sutors of Cromarty, and in 
Sutherlandshire, between Aikel and Altnagalcanach; and on 
an island in a loch near Louberoy. 
In Ayrshire, at Monkcastle House, and near Eglinton 
Castle, and Craigie, near Kilmarnock. 
In Edinburghshire, at Dalkeith Palace, the seat of His 
Grace the Duke of Buccleuch; and in Morayshire by 
Findhorn. 
In Ireland, in the county of Dublin, at Carton, near 
Maynooth, the seat of the Duke of Leinster; and in the 
county of Galway, at Newport House. 
The almost total discontinuance of hawking, and the con¬ 
sequent dispersion of the great Heronries of the olden time, 
carefully then preserved for the purpose, have naturally led 
to the establishment of smaller settlements in various other 
places, and even of single pairs from time to time. The 
