LITTLE EGRET. 91 



tail, and tail coverts, white. Legs, bright black above the 

 knee on the bare part, and the upper half of the part below 

 it is dark yellowish green; toes, also blackish green with a 

 tin^e of yellow; claws, dusky -black. 



The young are at first, it is said, greyish white; they 

 are without the elongated filaments to the feathers on the 

 back of the head and the lower part of the neck in front 

 and the back. The lower bill is whitish for more than half 

 its length from the base. 



