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URALLATORES. 



ARDEID^E. 



ARDEIDM. 



THE BUFF-BACKED HERON. (Adult.) 



THE LITTLE WHITE HERON. (YoUDg.) 



Ardea russata. 



Ardea cequinoctialis, Red-billed Heron, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 25. 



,, Little White Heron.! MONTAGU, Suppl. to Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 20. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 97. 



russata, Buff-lacked Heron, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 24. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 188. 



Rufous-lacked Eyret, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xx. 



Heron aiyrette doree, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 377. 



THE first, and, as far as I am aware, the only notice of 

 the occurrence of this tare bird in England was communi- 



