378 AYES. 



The adult Night-Heron, with the port of the Bitterns, and a beak 

 proportionably thicker, has a few slender feathers on the occiput. 

 There is but one species found in France, 



Jrd. nycticorax, L. j Bihoreau d'JEiirope,(l) Enl. 758; Frisch, 



203,- Naum, Ed. I, 26, f. 35. (The Night Heron.) The male 



is whitej back and calotte blackj the young bird, Enl. 759, grey 



with a brown mantle and a blackish calotte. (2) 



We must observe, however, that these various subdivisions of the 



Herons are of but little importance, and are by no means well 



marked. 



The third tribe, besides having a thicker and smoother 

 beak than is found in the second, has tolerably strong and 

 almost equal membranes between the base of the toes. 



CicoNiA, Cuv. 



The Storks have a thick beak, moderately cleft; no fossse or grooves; 

 the nostrils pierced towards the back and near the basej an extremely 

 short tongue. Their legs are reticulated, and the anterior toes 

 strongly palmated at base, particularly the external ones. The light 

 and broad mandibles of their beak, "by striking against each other, 

 produce a clash which is almost the only sound that proceeds from 

 these birds. Their gizzard is but slightly muscular, and their cseca 

 so small that they are scarcely perceptible. Their lower larynx has 

 no peculiar muscle; their bronchise are longer than common, and 

 composed of more than the usual number of rings. There are two 

 species in France, 



Arclea cicoma,L.; Enl. 886; Frisch, 196; Naum. Ed. I, 22, f. 

 31. (The White Stork.) White; quills of the wings black; feet 

 and beak red. A large bird, held in great veneration by the 

 people, a distinction arising from the fact that it destroys 

 snakes and other noxious reptiles. It prefers building its nest 

 on towers, in steeples, Ecc; and after having once constructed 



undulata, Gm. Enl. 768; Jl. phiUppensis, Gm. Enl. 908, [Add, also, A. violacea, 

 Wils. Vlir, pi. Ixv, f. I; A. caeruka, Wils. VII, pi. Ixii, f. 3; i. virescem, Wils. 

 VII, ixi, f. 1;A. exilis, Wils. VIII, pi. Ixv, f. 4. Am. Ed.] 



(1) According to Meyer, the results of whose labours we still follow, the Ard. 

 grisea, A. maculata, and the A. badiu of Gmel. are different states of the A. nydi- 

 corax. 



(2) Add A. pileata. Lath., or A. alba, fi; Gm., Enl. 907; A. caledonica, L&th. ; 

 A. cayennensis, Enl. 899, or violacea, Wils. VIII, Ixv, 1, of which A. jama'icensis, 

 Gm. is the young; A. sibilutrix, T. Col. 271. The Pouacre, Buff. [Ard. Gardeni, 

 Gm.) Enl. 309, appears to be the young of an ash coloured Night Heron, with a 

 bronze-black calotte and back. It is the same as the A. fiMculata, Frisch, 202. 



