. Nature and sport in Britain . 1 -i i ;| / J ■ - •T ^ \- 1/ If ■ ■i From a photo Ijy Major H. HERON Plate V. From a photo by R. B. : ADULT PLUMAGE. THE HERON no less than thirty-nine trout. Nicholas Cox, in hisGentlemans Recreation^ published in Charles , mentions a hern that had been shot at apond which had seventeen carps at once in hisbelly. And the same curious writer avows thatherons kept tame would eat about fifty fish in aday, one day with another. And again, says MasterCox, one hern that haunts a pond, in a twelve-moneths time shall destroy a
. Nature and sport in Britain . 1 -i i ;| / J ■ - •T ^ \- 1/ If ■ ■i From a photo Ijy Major H. HERON Plate V. From a photo by R. B. : ADULT PLUMAGE. THE HERON no less than thirty-nine trout. Nicholas Cox, in hisGentlemans Recreation^ published in Charles , mentions a hern that had been shot at apond which had seventeen carps at once in hisbelly. And the same curious writer avows thatherons kept tame would eat about fifty fish in aday, one day with another. And again, says MasterCox, one hern that haunts a pond, in a twelve-moneths time shall destroy a thousand store-carps ;and when Gentlemen sue these ponds, they think theirneighbours have robbed them, not in the least con-sidering an Hern is able to devour them in half ayears time, if he put in half as many more. Afterwhich the author proceeds to give very precise in-structions for the ensnaring and slaying of this un-conscionable pond robber. Still, with all his faults, English landowners andfishermen have a pardonable fondness for this pic-turesque bird ; he is a link with the wild past whichwe can ill afford t
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