44S LOUISIANE, BLUE, &c. HERON. 



3.ro. LouisiANE. ^ Crabier roux a tete &. queue vertes, Di Buffon, vii. ifij.—Pl. Enl. 909.— 



Latham, iii. 



, ILT With the crown and tail of a dull green : the neck and belly 



red, tinged with brown : coverts of the wings duflcy green, 

 edged with tawny: the back covered with long flender feathers, 

 faintly dafhed with purple. 

 Place. Inhabits hontftana.. 



35J. Blue. 21"^^ Bittern, Catejby, i. 76. — Le Crabier bleu. Be Buffon, vii. 398^— 



Ardea Czerulea, Lin. Sjft. 238. — Latham, iii. — Lev. Mus. 



|1T With a blue bill, dufky at the point : head and neck of a 

 changeable purple ; the firft adorned with a beautiful creft 

 of long flender feathers : the remainder of the plumage entirely of 

 a fine deep blue : from the breaft depend leveral long feathers : the 

 back is covered with others a foot in length, hanging four inches be- 

 yond the tail ; they are filky, and of the fame fine texture with 

 thofe of the creft : the legs are green. Weight fifteen ounces. 

 Place. It appears, but not in numbers, in Carolina-, and that only in the 



fpfing of the year. Its winter refidence feems 10 be Jamaica *. 



^cz. Yellow- Crefted Bittern, Catejby, i. 79 — Ardea Violacea, Lin. Sjji. jjS. — -.Latham, iii. 



CROWNED. Le-Crabiergrisde feiis Z>«-5»^o», vii. 395. 



With a black, ftrong, and thick bill : crown of a pale yellow:: 

 from the hind part iffue three or four long flender white fea- 

 thers, erigible at pleafure ; feme are fix inches long : a broad white 

 ftripe runs from the corner of the lower mandible as far as the 

 ears : the reft of the cheeks and head are of a blueifli black : he^d, 

 breaft, belly, and coverts of wings, of a dufky blue : the primaries 

 brown, tinged with blue: the back ftriped with black, mixed with 



* SJoani's Hiji, Jamaica, ii. 31;. 



white ■: 



