444 RED -SHOULDER ED, AND COMMON HERON. 



paleft on the under part, and fpotted : primaries black : legs brown:. 

 Height, when ereft, four feet and a half. 

 Place. Inhabits Virginia. Feeds on fifh, frogs,, and lizards.^ 



342. Red-shoul- Aih-colored Heron, fi/u;. 13;.— Ardea Hudfonias, I;V 5)y?. 233.— i«/,J<z«!, iii. 

 °*'^^''* Le Heron de la Bale d'Hudfon, DeBuffon, vii, 386.— Lev. Mus. 



With a white forehead : black creft : hind part of the neck of 

 a reddifh brown ; fore part white, fpotted with black : fea- 

 thers on the breaft long and narrow : belly black and white, bound- 

 ed with black : fides grey : primaries and tail dufky : coverts and 

 fecondaries cinereous : fhoulders and thighs of an orange red : bill 

 yellowifli : legs dufky. In Size fuperior to the Englijh Heron. 



Place. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, frequenting, during fummer, the inland 



lakes. 

 Female? Head fmooth, deep cinereous: neck paler: throat white : bread; 



and belly white, ftriped downwards with black : back, tail, and co- 

 verts of win^gs, light afli : primaries black: Ihoulders and thighs of 

 a dirty yellow : legs dufliy. 



Place. Sent to Mrs. Blackburn from New Tor k, under the name of the Hen- 



Heron, It probably is the female of the laft. Its Length was three 

 feet to the tail i to the end of the toes four feet nine. 



343. Common -Sr. Zool. ii. N" 173. — Ardea cinerea. Hagen, Faun. Suec. N" 165. — Latham, iii. 

 HiRON. Le Heron commun, T>eBuffon,y\\. i^.—Pl. Enl. -]%•]. 755. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. 



Mus. 



TT With a white crown: long pendent black creft: white- neck, 

 ftreaked before with black : coverts of the wings, fcapulars, 

 and tail, grey : belly white : primaries dufky. Creft on the Female- 

 very ftiort. Length three feet three. 

 Pi-AC"' Is frequent in Carolina * ; and I think a fpecimen was fent to Mrs, 



Blackburn from New Tork, where they breed in flocks as they dO' 



• Catejby, App, xxKv'w^Law/bfi, Hijl, Carol- 148. 



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