HERON.
C U T S GLAK. CRYHYR CAM. CRYR COPPOG, OP T H K A N C I E N T URITISH.
HERN. HEROH8HAW. HERONSEWGH. COMMON HERON.
CRESTED HERON.
Ardca cifurta, LATHAM. SHAW.
Ardta major, LlNKAUS.
Anita cri'sfata, BRISSON.
Antia—A Heron. Cittena—Ash-coloured—grey.
EVERY one who is acquainted, as who is not? with Miss Edgeworth's
ever entertaining stories—lacking, however, one thing, but 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 his
Heronry near Spalding.
There, for 1 shall proceed to give a catalogue of all the Heronries
in the kingdom extant and extinct, ' b o t h great and small,' so far as I
can furnish a complete one, compiled for t he most part from the pages
of ' T h e 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 Manby, near Brigg, the property of the Earl of
Yarboroughj Downington, Skillingthorpc wood, near Lincoln, and
Swan pool.
In Yorkshire, likewise, by the piece of water near Hemsworth,
Pontefract; at Kirby Hall, near Boroughbridgc, the seat of Richard
Thompson, Esq.; at Walton Hall, near Wakefield, the scat of Charles
Waterton, Esq.; Watton Abbey, near Beverley, one of the scats of
Richard Bethell, Esq.; and Swanland, near Hull. Likewise at
Scorbro', near Beverley, one of the seats of Lord Hotham; and
Scarthingwcll, near Ferry-bridge, a scat of Lord Hawke; Sutton Wood,