JAMAICA NIGHT HERON. 



401 







Page. Price. 



Knots, 



ii. 



76, Id. 



Dotrels, 



-— . 



102, Id. 



Bustards, 



i. 



376, 



Terns, 



ii. 



197, 4d. a dozen. 



Great birds, 



*' 



Ditto. 



Small birds, 





ISd.adozen. 



Larks, 





12d. for two 



• '. . 





dozens. 



No. IX. 



GARDENIAN HERON? JAMAICA NIGHT HERON. 

 P. 98. 



[THE bird mentioned at page 98 of this vo- 

 lume, as having been shot near St. Asaph, is 

 supposed, by the reverend Hugh Dalies, to be 

 the Jamaica Night Heron of Latham Ind. orn, 

 679' He has favored the editor with the fol- 

 lowing minute description of this rare subject. 

 Ed. 



" The length of this species is about twenty 

 inches ; the general color of the plumage is a 

 light ash colored brown, variegated wdth white. 

 The feathers on the back, the scapulars, and 

 the coverts of the wings, have a triangular 



VOL. II. 2 D 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



