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EGRET, LITTLE. 



AKDEA GARZETTA, Lin. 



This is one of the most elegant, as well as one 

 of the smallest, of the Heron tribe. Its colour is 

 of the purest white, and on the head, breast, and 

 shoulders it is adorned with soft silky flowing 

 plumes, which give the bird a beauty quite pecu- 

 liar to itself. These delicately formed feathers are 

 six to eight inches in length, with slender shafts, 

 twisted and bent down towards their tips. The Little 

 Egret is found in various parts of Asia, Africa, and 

 the south of Europe, and is known to migrate 

 northward as far as Germany. In England it is 

 merely an accidental visitor. It is said to build 

 in marshes. The female lays four or five white 

 eggs. 



FALCON, GYR FALCON, 

 GREENLAND, OR ICELAND FALCON. 



FALCO ISLANDICTJS, Penn. 



Under the appellation of Gyr or Jer Falcon 

 there appear to have been two distinct species 

 taken in England, one being named the Green- 

 land Falcon, and the other the Iceland Falcon, 



