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GREAT WHITE HERON. 
GREAT WHITE EGRET. GREAT EGRET. 
Ardea alba , 
“ egretta , 
“ Candida , 
“ alba major, 
“ egrettoides , 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Fleming. Temmingk. 
Brisson. 
Ray. 
Gmklin. 
Ardea — A Heron. Alba — White. 
The Great White Heron is, or has been, found, in various 
parts of Europe occasionally, namely, in Germany, France, 
Turkey, Hungary, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Greece, and the 
Islands of the Grecian Archipelago, and in Sweden. In Asia, 
likewise, in Asia Minor, India, Great Tartary, and the 
neighbourhood of the Black and the Caspian Seas, and Persia. 
Of this species one was seen on the borders of the River 
Avon, in Devonshire, in the autumn of the year 1805; three 
or four of the Common Herons having been previously 
observed in company with it. Another on the banks of the 
River Stour, in Essex, on the 3rd. of October, 1834; one 
having been also noticed in the spring on the Oakley shores, 
as a third was subsequently, by the Rev. Revett Shepherd, 
and the Rev. William Whitear, by the River Orwell. One is 
mentioned by Montagu, on the authority of Dr. Latham, as 
having been killed in Cumberland, and another as having 
been seen by the Rev. Mr. Yaughan in Devonshire. In York¬ 
shire, as communicated to the British Association, at their 
session at Newcastle, in 1838, by Arthur Strickland, Esq., 
one was seen about the year 1825, or 1826, at Hornsea 
Mere, in the East-Riding. One at New Hall, shot by John 
Townend, Esq.; the fact communicated by Dr. Farrar to Mr. 
