Q2 CICONIIFORMES CHAP. 
South America is metallic green, with rufous and white throat, 
rufous belly, black cheeks and nape; the very long occipital and 
dorsal plumes being grey, as is the fore-neck, and the recurved 
feathers of the sides 
of the neck reddish. 
A, (Garzetta) garzetta, 
the “Little Egret,” 
which has strayed to 
Britain, and extends 
from South Europe to 
the whole of Africa, 
India, and Japan, is 
entirely white, with 
long filamentous 
scapular and moderate 
jugular plumes and 
two lengthened crest- 
feathers, all of which 
are said to be tem- 
porarily lost after 
breeding. A. nigripes, 
ranging from Java to 
Australia, is barely 
distinguishable, but 
the American repre- 
— 
RES, = an sentative, 4. candi- 
y dissima, has a large 
occipital tuft. <A. 
(Herodias) alba, the 
“Great White Heron,” 
another of our rare 
Common Heron. Ardea cinerea. x 4. 
Visitors, extends from the middle of Europe to most of Africa, 
Central Asia, and the Burmese countries, beyond which a doubt- 
fully distinct species, with yellower bill, reaches Australia and New 
Zealand; the American A. egretta, however, differs in its black 
legs. The breeding adult is white, with very long decomposed 
scapular and lengthened jugular plumes, but no crest. The most 
typical forms of Ardea are large slaty-coloured birds, varied by 
black, rufous, and white, the head being commonly darker and 
the lower parts striped; while two slender occipital plumes are, 
