26 SQUACCO HERON. Class II. 



9. Squacco. Ardea comata. A. cristata lu- Cancrofagus luteus. Brisson 



teo rufescens, uropygio cor- av. v. 472. 



pore subtus alis caudaque Crabier de Mahon. Hist. 



albis. Lath. Ind. orn. 687- d'ois. vii. 393. PL Enl. 



id. Syn. v. 74. id. Sup. ii. 348. 



302. Squacco. Raii Syn. av. QQ. 



Gm. Lin. 632. TFil. orn. 281. 



[ONLY one instance is recorded of this bird 

 having been seen in England, which was shot 

 by Mr. Lambert at Boyton, in IFiitshire, in 

 1775. 

 Descrip- Its length is eighteen inches. The bill is of a 

 livid red, with a brown tip ; the lo7'U77i greenish ; 

 the irides yellow ; the crown of the head much 

 crested, six of the feathers hanging quite down 

 to the beak ; these are narrow, white margined 

 with black ; the neck and breast pale ferrugi- 

 nous; the feathers on the first very long and 

 loose ; the back ferruginous, inclining to violet, 

 and furnished with long narrow feathers which 

 reach beyond the wings, when they are closed, 

 and fall over them ; the wings, rump, tail, belly, 

 and vent, white ; the tail pretty long ; the legs 

 stout, of a greenish yellow ; the claw of the mid- 

 dle toe serrated within. Ed. 



" It is met with near Bologna, and is there 



TIOKT. 



