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yellow; the former are shorter and stouter, and the 

 toes longer, than in other species of the stuffed 

 specimens of the Egrets which we have examined. 



This rara Avis on the British shores, was long 

 since noticed by Willoughby and Ray; and a bird 

 of this species was said to have been taken at Yar- 

 mouth in December, 1820. Latham describes the 

 Squacco Heron as being about the size of a Crow; 

 and, judging by Mr. Yigors's preserved specimen, 

 from which the foregoing figure was drawn, we 

 think he was correct. We are not informed when 

 or where the present subject was taken or shot. 



