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LITTLE EGRET. 
EGRET HEROIN". 
Ardea garzetta , Pennant. Montagu. 
Arden —A Heron. Garzetta —.? 
The elegant and graceful Egret, whose whole plumage is 
white as the driven snow, resembles the preceding one—‘sic 
parvis compenere magna’—in all but size; and is likewise 
assignable to the same localities, as being found in Europe 
occasionally—in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Sicily, 
France, Spain, the south of Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Sardinia, 
and the islands of the Grecian Archipelago; and likewise met 
with in Asia—in Persia, and the neighbourhood of the Black 
Sea and the Caspian Sea. So also in Africa—in Egypt and 
Nubia in the east, and Senegal in the west. 
Specimens have been recorded as having occurred in this 
country as follows:—In Hampshire, one near Christchurch, in 
the beginning of July, 1822; in Cornwall, two near Penzance, 
in April, 1854. In Warwickshire, two or three near Sutton 
Coldfield; in Devonshire, one at Flatoars, on the River Dart, 
in the year 1816; one also, mentioned by Montagu, in Anglesea; 
it was a bird of the second year. A. Cleveland, Esq. mentions 
in the ‘Zoologist,’ page 3116, that one was shot in the south 
of Devon, in April, 1851. 
In Ireland, Mr. Templeton records one as having been 
shot in the harbour of Cork. 
Meyer says ‘The localities usually chosen by this species, 
are generally the swampy banks of rivers and lakes, where 
the flags and reeds are of low growth; or the vicinity of 
woods and large trees, in which the birds roost at night.’ 
