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LAKES AND RIVERS. 



neck large longitudinal spots of black and ash-colour ; 

 the back and wings of bluish gray, the beak of deep 

 yellow, the iris yellow. The skin round the eyes is 

 without feathers and is of a bluish-purple, the feet 

 brown, but deep red towards the feathery part of 





THE NIGHT HERON. 



the leg. The length is three feet or more, 

 colouring of the male and female after 

 of age. But the young have no crest, or 

 are extremely short, and the long neck- 

 wanting. The throat is white, the neck 

 ash, with deeper spots, the back and wings 



Such is the 

 three ' years 

 the feathers 

 -feathers are 

 of a clear 

 of ash-blue 



