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greenish ; irides yellow ; a white line passes over 

 each eye ; the crown of the head, and nape of the 

 neck are black, glossed with green ; three long nar- 

 row white feathers hang pendant ; the hinder- part? 

 wings, sides and tail are ash coloured ; the throat is 

 white ; the breast and belly are yellowish buff; the 

 back is black ; the legs are yellowish green ; the 

 middle claw serrated. 



The female has not the plumes. 



This species builds in trees. 



The female lays 3 or 4 greenish-blue eggs. 



8. CASPICA. AFRICAN HERON. 



A cristata corpore cinereo, collo pectore abdomine- 

 que ferrugineis, gula alba, collo Unas tribus 

 nigris. Lath. 



The bill is dusky yellow, blackish at the point, and 

 seven inches long ; the head and neck are pale ferru- 

 ginous; the chin and throat are white; the feathers 

 on the top of the head are long, black, and form a 

 sort of crest; from the head a list of black runs 

 down the back of the neck for two-thirds of its length ; 

 from the eye on each side another list continues down 

 to the breast; on the lower part of the neck the 

 feathers are long, loose, and of a deep ash colour , 

 the breast is ferruginous chesnut ; the back is very 

 deep ash colour ; the quills and tail are black ; the 

 lower feathers on the rump like those on the fore- 



