GREAT AND LITTLE WHITE HERON. ^ 445 



m England. If I miftake not the kind, they come to New York in 

 May, and retire in OSiober. They are found in Riijfia and Sibiria, 

 'but not vtx^ far north. Crantz fays, that they have been feen in 

 the fouth oi Greenland ; but were never obferved by Fabricius * : but 

 it certainly inhabits Romjdal and Ncrdmer +, in- the fevere climate - 

 of the diocefe o? Drontheim, 



It may be here 'remarked, that this, and the whole tribe of what 

 Lmnieus calls Grall^e, or the Cloven-footed Water Foivl, quit Siveden-, 

 and of courfe the more northern countries, at approach of v/inter i 

 nor is a fingle ipecits feen till the return of fpring J. 



White Heron, Br. Tool. i. N° 175. — Ardea Alba, Lin. SjJI. 239. — Faun. Siiec. 3^^. Great 



N" lb6.— Latham, iii. white. 



Le Heron blanc, De Bufon, vii. 365. — Pl.Enl. 886.— Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. , 



T-T With a very flender yellow bill: plumage entirely of a milk 

 white : legs black. Length to the toes four feet and a half. 

 Inhabits America, from Jamaica and Mexico, to New Eng- 

 land. It migrates, being feen in New York from June to OSlober 

 only. Is found, but rarely, in Sweden. Inhabits the Ruffian domi- 

 nions, about the Cafpian and Black Seas, the lakes of Great 'Tartaryy 

 and the river Irtijh, and fometimes extends north as high as lat. (^2- 

 Captain Cook, obferved this fpecies \n. New Zealand \\, 



Garzetta, ^Idr. Av. lib. iii. 161. — Will. Orn. 280. — Raii Syn, A-v. 99. — ,,._ Little 



Catefiy, 1.77.- — Latham, m. white. 



La Garzette blanche, De Buffon, vii. 371. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



"U" With the bill and legs black : whole plumage white : on the- 

 head a fhort creflr.^ Length two feet. 

 This fpecies is found in New York. Is met with again \nNew Zea- Piacb, 



land and Otaheite. _ 



Pia.;e. 



" Faun. GreenJ. 106. 



f Leems, z\2. 



J Amcetu Acad. iv. 5,8 8»- 



li Voy. wwards S, Pole, i. 87. 









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