BUFF-BACKED HERON. 



HERODIONES. 



187 

 ARDEIDjE.' 



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Aedea bubulcus, Audouin.* 

 THE BUFF-BACKED HERON. (Adult.) 

 Ardea russata. 



The first notice of the occurrence of this rare bird in 

 England was communicated to the Linnean Society by 

 Montagu on the 5th of May, 1807 (Trans, ix. p. 197) ; and 

 a more detailed account of it, under the name of the 'Little 

 White Heron,' was afterwards published in the Supplement 

 to his Ornithological Dictionary, from which some of the 

 following particulars are derived. 



" This elegant little species of Heron, which was shot 



* Explication sommaii-e des Planches d'Oiseaux de I'Egypte, &c., i. p. 298, 

 folio Ed. (1826) ; p. 391, 8vo. Ed. (1828). 



