SNOWY HERON. 33 



by an exaggeration common to almost all colourers of plates of 

 Natural History. We have no hesitation in asserting that a 

 Heron such as that figured by the author in question does not 

 exist in the United States. That his Heron is indentical with 

 ours there can be no doubt, and we are equally satisfied that 

 his specimen was a bird of the first year. So common did we 

 find this species along the coasts of the Carolinas, Georgia and 

 East Florida, during the winter, that they were to be seen eve- 

 ry hour of the day, and were almost as tame as domestic fowls. 

 A specimen shot in East Florida was twenty-one inches in 

 length; the upper mandible, and tip of the lower, were black, 

 base of the latter flesh coloured, the remainder of bill yellow. 



G. Ord. 



