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green : the irides of a pale yellow : the head adorn- 

 ed with a beautiful creft, compofed of fome fhort, 

 and of two long feathers, hanging backward ; thefe 

 are upwards of four inches in * length i the whole 

 plumage is of a refplendent whltenefs : the feathers 

 on the breaft, and the icapulars, are very delicate, 

 long, (lender, and unwebbed, hanging in the light- 

 ed and loofeit manner : the le^s are of a dark <*reen 

 almoft black : the icapuiars and the cred were 

 formerly much elteemed as ornaments for caps 

 and head-pieces ; fo that aigrette and egret came to 

 fignify any ornament to a cap, though originally 

 the word was derived from ajgre, a caufe de V 

 aigreur de fa voix *. 



We never met with this bird or the crane in Eng- 

 land, but formed our defcriptions from fpecimens in 

 the elegant cabinet of Doctor Mauduit in Paris. 



Belon a<v. 1^5, 



VIII. The 



