238. ■ HERON. 



ofblackj reaching tv/o thirds of the way down ; on each fide, be- 

 ginning behind the eye, another, continuing on each fide to the 

 bread : the feathers of the lower part of the neck before are long, 

 narrow, and loofe, as is moft of the Heron tribe ; the colour 

 of them, and the lower part of the neck, a deep afh : the breaft 

 ferruginous chefnut : back very deep aih-colour : quills and tail 

 black: the loofe feathers on the runnp nnuch like thofe on the 

 fore part of the neck, with a mixture of ferruginous : the belly 

 pale ferruginous afh-colour : legs dull yellow ; the fore part of 

 them, the toes, and claws, black. 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits Africa, from whence a fpecimen has been 



received into the Leverian Mufeum. A fecond fpecimen is like- 

 wife in the fame colledion, which was fhot in AJhdown Park, near 

 Lambourn^ Berks, belonging to Lord Craven. 



8i. 



LOHAUJUNG OlZElargei length three feet. Bill nine inches long, black, 



_ * ftrait, pointed j lower mandible fomewhat convex j noftrils a 



flit near the bafe : the fore part of the head, as far as the throat, 



and fides, of a rich green : crown of the head, and neck, deep 



brown, marked with a few great green fpots : upper part of the 



back brown i the lower like the neck: wing coverts white; 



ridge and lower parts pale brown : fecondaries fine deep green : 



breaft, belly, and primaries, white : tail black : legs long, fcaly, 



reddifti : toes webbed at the bafe : claws Ihort. 



Place. Inhabits India, where it is not uncommon, and called Lohau- 



jung. Defcribed from Lady Impefs drawings. — Among thefc 



1 alfo obferve another, which difFers in having the beginning of 



the back mottled brown and white, and the white on other parts 



not 



