450 GARDENIAN AND NIGHT HERON. 



fcapulars duflcy, each feather tipt with white. In other refpefls it 

 agrees with the former : the legs of each are greenifh : the form of 

 their bodies (lender and elegant. Length, from bill to the tip of 

 the tailj about fevenceen inches. 

 Place. ggj^j. jq 5jj. jJfjiQ^ Lever from North America, 



355. Gar.denian. Le Pouacre de Cayenne ? P/. £«/. 939. — Latham, \\\. 



With a dufliy llrong bill : head, neck, breaft, and belly, whit- 

 ifli,. elegantly flreaked downwards with fliort fine lines of 

 black ; the crown and hind part the darkeft : upper part of the 

 back ftreaked with white ; the lower duflcy and plain : the whole 

 •wing of the fame color : the leffer coverts marked with fmall yel- 

 lowifii fpots ; the greater coverts marked with a white fpot at the 

 end of each feather, forming, acrofs the wings, two rows : the 

 primaries edged with dull white ; the ends tipt with the fame : tail 

 dulky : legs of a deep dirty yellow. Length about twenty-two 

 inches. 

 Pl&cs. Doftor Garden, o( South Carolina, favoured me with this bird. 



From the charafteriRic lines of white fpots in the wings, I do not 

 doubt but that the Brown Bittern of Catejiy, i, 78, is the fame * 

 with this : notwithftanding, it would hardly be known, had he not 

 preferved the fpots in his very bad figure of it. He fays it fre- 

 quents ponds and rivers in the interior part of the country remote 

 from the fea. — Lev. Mus. 



956. NiGHTo Ardea Nyfticorax, Zj«. %?. 135. — Will. Orn. 2jg. — Lai ham, iu, 



Le Bihoreau. LeB. de Cayenne, De Buffon, vii. 435. 439. tab. xxii. — Tl, Eid, 

 758. ^59. 899.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With a black bill, crown, back, and fcapulars j the laft broad 



and long : forehead, cheeks, neck, and under fide of the body, 



■white : wings and tail of a very pale alh-color : the hind part of the 



* AUoVElQile of De Bujia, vii. 428. 



head 



