ASH -COLORED AND STREAKED HERON, 449 



white: from the upper part arife tufts of elegant (lender filky fea- 

 thers, falling beyond the tail : the legs and feet yellow. Weight 

 one pound and a half. 



^ This fpecies appears in Carolina m the rainy feafons : but their Place. 



native places are the Bahama iflands, where they breed in amazing 

 numbers, amidft the bufhes in the rocks. They are called by the 

 iflanders Crab-catchers, as they chiefly live on thofe cruftaceous ani- 

 mals. They are of great ufe to the inhabitants j who take the 

 young birds before they can fly, and find them delicious eating. 

 They fwarm fo on fome of the rocky ifles, that two men, in a few 

 hours, will fill a fmall boat with them, taking them when perched on 

 the rocks or buflies ; for they will make no attempt to efcape, not- 

 withfl:anding they are full grown. 



With a black ftrong bill : crown dufky : cheeks and chin 353- Ash-color- 

 whitifli : neck of a pale cinereous brown, ftreaked before with * 



white : back, wings, and tail, cinereous, clouded round each feather 

 with dufliy : feathers on the fides of the back long and broad, 

 hanging over the ends of the wings : belly white : legs yellowifli. 

 Length two feet one inch. 



Inhabits New York. Arrives there in May: breeds, and leaves the P£.a,ci. 



country in OS^toher, — Bl. Mus. — Latham, iii. 



With a bill about two inches long : crown, back, and tail, of 354. Streajked. 

 an uniform dufliy color : hind part of the neck and cheeks 

 rufly and black : chin and throat white : fore part of the neck 

 marked with fl:reaks of white and black : coverts of the wings, 

 with fl:reaks of black and yellowifli white : ridge of the wing white : 

 primaries duflcy.— Lev. Mus. — Latham, iii. 



Another, in the fame Mufeiim and fame cafe (probably differing 

 only in fex) has, from the lower mandible, a white line bounding 

 the lower part of each cheek : the greater coverts of the wings and 



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