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Adrea cinerea. —The Common Heron. 
Plate LIX. fig. 4. 
Blue-gray; a long pendulous crest rising from the sinciput; 
back of the neck with a mane-like white crest; forehead, neck, 
abdomen, and crissum, white ; sides of the breast and flanks 
deep black; on the throat a longitudinal row of black and ci¬ 
nereous spots. Three feet long. Inhabits Europe. 
Adrea garzetta. —The Little Egret- 
Plate LIX. fig. 6. 
White, with a pendant crest; a series of long pointed feathers 
hang along the back and flow beyond the tail, with strong shafts, 
and loose fibrous webs, having a tuft of similar feathers on each 
side of the breast; legs dusky black. Two feet long. Inha¬ 
bits Europe. 
Section II.—Bill about the length of the head, greatly 
compressed ; upper mandible slightly bent. 
Adrea stellaris. —The Common Bittern. 
Plate LX I. fig. 2. 
Yellow-red ; sides with zigzag brown lines; the lower part of 
the neck with brown and red spots ; and beneath with large black 
longitudinal stripes; quills with alternate stripes of red and 
gray. Twenty inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Genus 13.—CICONIA. — Temminck. 
Generic Character. —Bill long, straight, robust, cylindrical, 
shape of an elongated cone, ridged, rounded, parallel with the 
head; under mandible slightly retrousse; nostrils situated to¬ 
wards the base of the bill, longitudinally cleft in a groove ; 
ophthalmic region naked; legs long; feet with three toes be¬ 
fore, united the length of the first joint; hallux articulated, 
parallel with the toes ; wings of medium size, third and fourth 
quills the longest. 
Ciconia alba. —The Common Stork. 
Plate LXI. fig. 3. 
White ; scapulars and wings black ,• bill and feet orange-red ; 
