The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
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Legs, and Feet were eight Inches long, cover’d with yellowifh and 
black Scales mixc, the Toes four, one behind, and three before. thar 
in the middle being two Inches long, having brown Claws, there was 
likewife a {mall Web between the two molt outward Toes; 
Its Stomach was Oblong, or Sack-fafhion, and was fill’d with the 
remainder of fall Fifh Fry, it was extreamly fat, and the Fat yellow, 
and had a yellow Down covering the Breaft, as the other Herons be- 
fore defcrib’d. 
Ic feeds on fmall Fifh, Fifh Fry, ec. 
It frequents Marfhes near rhe Sea fide, as at the Salt Ponds. ce. 
IV. Ardes:caruleo nigra. Tab, 263. Fig. 3. Raijs fin. po 189. 
_ The Black Gaulding, or blue Gaulding. 
This is from its Bills end to theend of the Tail, one Foot and an half, 
twice as much from the end of one Wing to the other being extend. 
ed, the Bill is bluifh upwards, blackifh towards the end, where it is 
fharp, it is two Inches and an half long, and at its Original has a greenifh 
Skin about the Eye, ic has a Tuft of fmall, thin, longifh Feathers on 
its Head, its Neck is fix Iaches long, cover’d. with a few thin Feathers 
of a bluifh black Colour, as are the Heathers of this Bird every. where, 
except on his Breaft, Belly, and under the Wings, where ’tis of a more 
light Colour, the Legs ‘are feven. Inches long, cover’d with greenith 
Scales, the Toes are four, one behind and three before, the middle- 
moit of whichis longeft, being more than two Inches in length, the 
Claws are black, crooked, and a little fharp. 
I obferv’d onthe out Part of his Breaft, juft under the Neck, there 
was a Spot of white downy final] Feathers, and under them a yellowifh 
Skin, in which they were rooted, below which lay a conglomerated 
Gland, of a pretty large Size. The OEfophagus: was wide, the Stomach 
hanging like a Sack, and very well fill’d with Shrimps, young Crabs, 
Spiders, Field Crickets, és. The Citcumvolutions of the Guts were 
few, under the Heart was the A/pera Arteria divided, and there were two 
round Holes-oppofite.to one another, for giving Paflage, I fuppofe, ro 
the Air into the Cavity of the Abdgmes, the Liver was large, and cone 
fifted of two Lobes fillipg both right and left Aypochonares. 
It loves Ponds and watery Places. | vs ei 
ON, Ardea fiellaris minor. Tab. 263. Fig. 2. Raij. yn. p» 189. 
| : The fmall Bitters. | We 
_ This Bird, is fourteen Inches long from the point of its Bill to the 
end of the. Tail, abeut-twenty Inches broad taken’ from the Ends of 
its extended Wings, the, Head is proportionable to. its Body, the Eyes 
are round, encircled with: a yellow Membrane, ftretching its felf to- 
wards the Noftrils at the beginaing of the Bill, the Billis upwards of 
two Inches in Length pointed and corner’d, black in the upper Chap 
and yellow underneath, the Neck is five Inches long, and winds its 
felf always like a Roman §S and is immoveable, or very ‘ftiff, the Tail 
is little over an Inchyinm. Length, the Feathers, an the Crown of the 
Head are dark brown, and Tuft Fafhion, as likewife on the upper 
Part of the Neck, Back, and Tail, the Wings likewife, only fome 
whitifh and tawny Spots here and there, the under part of the Neots 
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