SQUACCO HERON.
ItF.D-l.KGliK]) HEROS. CASTA NEOTJS HE RON. SENEGAL BITTERS.
DWARF HEROS. SWABIAN BITTERN. SQEAIOTTA HERON.
Ard> a Senegalensts, GMKLIN.
" RalloideSf SCOPOLI.
" coma/a, PALLAS.
" S'jttaioita, GMELIN.
" Castanca, GMKLIN.
" crylhtvpus, var. B.y LATHAM.
" pumita, LATHAM.
" martigit, GMELIN.
Cancrofagus rufus, BRISSON.
lutats, BR IS SON.
Ardea-—A Heron. Sentgaltnsis—Of Senegal.
THIS kind appertains to Europe, being found in Turkey, Hungary,
SclftYOnia, Italy, Greece, and its islands, France and Sicily; also at
times in Switzerland, Silesia, Germany, and Holland; likewise to Asia
—in Persia, Syria, and Arabia, and along the Black Sea and the
Caspian Sea, in which region it is abundant; and to Africa—in
Nubia and Egypt.
I n Yorkshire one of these birds was killed on the low grounds
below Askern, in the West Hiding; other specimens have occurred
in various other counties. In Somersetshire, in 18:25, near Bridgewater.
In ('ornwall, one near Penzance, about the year 1844, and
one was seen at Hayle a few days after; several others, one on the
20th. of .May, 1862, near Oamelford; one at Scilly in the autumn of
184:2; also in Devonshire, one near Kingsbridge, in 1840, and one or
two have since occurred on the banks of the river Tamar. In Kent,
at I tedgebury Park, May 26th., 1867; Hampshire; MI It shire, where
one was shot at Boyton by Mr. Lambert, in 1795. SiuTolk; Norfolk,
where one of those procured had entangled itself in a fishing-net, hung