. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE milET. 183 form was seen distending the tliiu skin of the Ijird's neck in its passage downwards, until it tinally tlisapi>eared for ; The writer remembers, as a boy, paying a visit to Lord Fitzwilliam's heroniy, at Milton, near Peterborough, one of the breeding-places mentioned by, Mr. Harting in the foregoing account. On many of tlie nests, which were placed at the top of some high trees, two birds were sitting side by side, silent and unmoved as statues, save for the rocking which tlie gale of wind gave them. It was blow
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE milET. 183 form was seen distending the tliiu skin of the Ijird's neck in its passage downwards, until it tinally tlisapi>eared for ; The writer remembers, as a boy, paying a visit to Lord Fitzwilliam's heroniy, at Milton, near Peterborough, one of the breeding-places mentioned by, Mr. Harting in the foregoing account. On many of tlie nests, which were placed at the top of some high trees, two birds were sitting side by side, silent and unmoved as statues, save for the rocking which tlie gale of wind gave them. It was blowing hard at the time, and many neaily full-grown young birds were on the ground walking about, whilst. not a few were entangled in their fall among the branches, and were liberated by us youngsters, not without fear of an attack from the old birds, who ci-oaked most ominously above our heads. The general colour of the Heron is grey above, white underneath, the breast black, with a white patch in front. The throat and fore-neck are white streaked with black. On the head is a beautiful pendent crest of black plumes. The forehead is white. Among the other species of the genus A rdea are the Egrets, most of which have snow}--white plumage, with beautiful long crests and feathery plumes on the back during the breeding-season. More tiian one species occurred in England, but they are much more plentiful in certain parts of the continent. In Hungary large numbers of Herons and Egrets breed together in the marshes, Egrets and Night Herons (Xi/cticorax griseus) herding together witli Common and Purple Herons. Landbeck. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. London [etc] Cassell & Company, Limited
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