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These two species are found in Europe. M. 

 Temminck thinks that A. Alba is the young of A. 

 Egretta ; and that the PI. Enl. 901, does not repre- 

 sent the little egi'et of Europe, but that of Ame- 

 rica.* 



There is a third species with shorter tarsi, whose 

 attenuated feathers considerably exceed the tail. 

 It is the 



Great Egret, Lath. Jr. Egretta, Enl. 925. 



Double the size of Alba ; plumage also white. Loui- 

 siana and North America generally. 



We also approximate to the egrets^The Ai'dea 

 Leuce, Illiger.t 



The Crabeater ofMahon. A. Comata, Gm. Enl. 348, 

 Naum. 1st Ed. 22, f. 45. 



A bird of the south of Europe, with reddish-brown 

 back ; wings, belly, and tail, white. The adult has 



* See Naum. Vagi. t. 49, f. 91 ; when young, Ardea Candida, Brisson, 

 and when gaining the adult plumage, Ardea Egrettmdes, Gmelin, Reise 

 y. t. 25. Length, three feet, six inches ; bill, six, and tarsi, eight 

 inches. 



f Add — Ardea Flavirostris, Temm. Pure white ; occipital crest, small ; 

 scapulars, elongate, filiform ;'^bill, yellow ; feet, black. Senegal, Java, and 

 Cape of Good Hope. Ardea Pealii, Ch. Bonap. Crested snowy-white, 

 bill, flesh-coloured ; legs, black ; toes beneath, yellow ; tarsus, more than 

 five inches long ; crest and neck-fringe, large and compact acute feathers ; 

 back with straight filiform plumes, reaching beyond the tail. Florida. 

 Perhaps same as former. 



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