AFRICAN HERON. Class II. 



claws shorter than usual in the tribe. Length 

 sixteen inches ?" 



In the fifth volume of the Linncean Transac- 

 tions, is a notice of a bird of this species having 

 been shot in Oxfordshire^ by John Horatio 

 Dickinson, Esq. ; another was killed in Dorset- 

 shire ; a third near St. Asaph, in Flintshire, in 

 November 1810. Ed. 



11. Afri- Ardea caspica. A.cristata cor- 



CAN. pQfe cinereo, coUo pectore 



abdomineque ferrugineis. 



Descrip- 



TION. 



gula alba, coUo lineis trlbus 

 nigris. Lath. Ind. orn. 698. 

 id. Sup. i. 237. 



[TWO only of this species of heron have been 

 observed in England, one of which was shot in 

 Ashdown Park, near Lamhourn, Berkshire, and 

 was preserved in the late Lever ian museum. 



This bird is inferior in size to the common 

 heron, not exceeding three feet in length. The 

 bill is seven inches long, of a dusky yellow 

 color, blackish at the point; the head and 

 greater part of the neck are pale ferruginous ; 

 the chin and throat white ; the feathers on the 

 head are long and black, forming a kind of 

 crest ; a list of black runs down the back of the 

 neck for two thirds of its length ; a similar list 

 continues from the eye on each side down to 

 the breast; the feathers on the lower part of 



