. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . HERODIONES. ( 52 ) ARDEID^. THE NIGHT HERON. THE GREY NIGHT HERON, THE NIGHT RAVEN. Nycticorax griseus. The Heron came from the Witch-pule tree. The Hotilet frae Deadivood-howe ;The au Id grey Corbie hoverit aboone. While tears downe his cheeks didjlowc. The Gloamyne Buchte. A SPECIMEN of this very rare bird was shot while sittingon the top of a tall oak-tree at the Hirsel, by the Earl ofHome, on the 25th of May 1822.
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . HERODIONES. ( 52 ) ARDEID^. THE NIGHT HERON. THE GREY NIGHT HERON, THE NIGHT RAVEN. Nycticorax griseus. The Heron came from the Witch-pule tree. The Hotilet frae Deadivood-howe ;The au Id grey Corbie hoverit aboone. While tears downe his cheeks didjlowc. The Gloamyne Buchte. A SPECIMEN of this very rare bird was shot while sittingon the top of a tall oak-tree at the Hirsel, by the Earl ofHome, on the 25th of May 1822. It was a male, and waspresented to the Museum of the University of Edinburghby his Lordship. A female was wounded by Lord Home onthe same day, but it fell amongst a bed of reeds and couldnot be found, though a very diligent search was made for it.^The Night Heron appears to have occurred only seven tunesin Scotland.^ It is not so large as the common species, andbreeds in several parts of Europe. 1 Newcastle Magazine for July 1822, and Dr. Jolinstons MS. Notes. 2 Yan-ells British Birds, fourtli edition, vol. iv. (1884-85), p. 196.
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