Norfolk.—Didlington, the seat of Colonel Wilson,
Northampton.—Althorpe, the seat of Earl Spencer.'
N or£Aim£er/and.-—Chillingham Park, the seat of Lord
Tankerville.
Shropshire.—At the Mere, near Ellesmere.
Somersetshire.— Pieton, belonging to the Earl - of Carnarvon,
and at Brockley Woods, near Bristol.
Surrey.—rCohham Park, the Seat of H. Coombe, Esq. ,'
and at Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames, the seat of Sir
Henry Fletcher, Bart.
Warwickshire.—Warwick Castle, the seat .of: the Earl of
Warwick.
Westmoreland. — Dalham Tower, the seat: of,^Cptenel
Wilson.
Yorkshire.—One at th e re a t of R. .Thompson,'Esq:-hear
Boroughbridge; another .at Walton Hall,' the >residence of
Charles Waterton, Esq. ; and at Hutton,.near Beverly the
seat of Mr. Bethel.
The Heron visits Scandinavia in- summer,' going occasionally
as far north as the Faroe Islands, Iceland, .and.the^south
coast of Greenland; it is found also' in_Russia and Siberia,
and Mhfhward over^ the European ' cdntmeht,. being ppliLt.
abundant in Holland. It is!found in North Africa,--at Madeira,
and is said to visit the Cape.', The Russian- naturalists
include it among the birds observed at the footrof ’ the Caucasus
; it inhabits India and Japan ; and Dr. Horsfield .includes
it in his Catalogue of-the Birds of Java. .
In the adult bird the beak is yellow, darkest in colour to- •
wards the point; the lore yellowish/green; irides-yellow; -
head and cheeks greyish white; the »elongated occipital feathers.
formipg the plume dark slate blue ; upper surface of the'
body and wings delicate French grey; the wing-primaries
black ; the tail-feathers slate grey ; the neck white, varied in
front throughout its length with dark bluish grey, forming
/elongated spots ; the white feathers at the bottom of the neck,
before the chest, elongated: under surface of the body greyish
white,«streaked with black ; legs and toes greenish yellow;
claws brown.
The whole length, from the point" of the-beak to the end
the tail, abMït three' foot* From; the’ carpal joint to the
end of the wing, seventeen inches V the first and the fifth
quill-feathers equal in length; „ the second, third, and fourth,
alsom,early equal in length-, and the longest in thé wing.
Adult females resemble- the? males* in plumage, but the
pllours aremqtjjpfinite?so pure andfbright:* §
Young birds* during ^the^r first and second year, have no
.elongated feathers at the bade of :the^ le ad , or at the bottom
of tke^’^pte/ln front; head and n^ck; ash colour;, with dull
streaks in front V the -upper mandible of the beak
•greenish brown-,, the- under- mandible yellow; thq-legs darker^
£.i$|coMur, almost brown, and tKer'grey? plumage on the upper
ksur-face of the-body and'wings-tinged’with brown-.
-"The vignette» IJefowr represen ts - the breast-bone-of the Common
Heron, abo.wconè-third less than the natural’size:.
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