GREAT WHITE HERON.
CRYR IUVVX, OF T H E ANCIENT BRITISH.
GREAT WHITE EGRET. GREAT EG RET.
Ardea alba, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
egrctta, FLEMING. TEMMINCK.
" amdida, BRISSON.
" alba major, RAY.
Egrettoid s, GHELXN .
Ardea—A Heron. Alba—White.
THE Great While Heron is, or has been, found in various parts
of Europe occasionally, namely, in (in-many, Prance, 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
(laspian Seas, and I 'ersia.
Of this species one was seen on the borders of the River Avon,
near Avcton Gifford, in Devonshire, by the Rev. K e r r Vaughan, in
the autumn of the year 1805; three or four of the Common Herons
having been previously observed in company with it; a second, under
similar circumstances at Pcnuance, on the 4th. of February, 1866.
Another on the banks of the River Stour, in Essex, on the 3rd. of
October, 1831; one having been also noticed in the spring on the
Oakley shores, a s a third was subsequently, by the Rev. Revett
Shepherd, and the Rev. William WTiitear, by the River Orwell. One
i s mentioned by Montagu, on t h e authority of Dr. Latham, as having
been killed in Cumberland, and another as having been seen by the
Rev. Mr. \ aughan, in Devonshire, the one mentioned above. In Yorkshire,
a s 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 Merc, in t he East Riding. One at N ew