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REDDISH EGRET HERON. 
fishes and their fry, frogs, and field mice, as well 
as all sorts of insects, snails, and worms. They 
build in large societies in the same place, and when 
they fly their neck is contracted and folded over 
their back, and their legs are extended : they 
migrate in flocks periodically : both sexes resemble 
each other, but the young are very dissimilar, and 
are very difficult to arrange correctly in conse- 
quence. 
A, parte inferiore nuda. 
A. Tibi(E naked on the lower part. 
a. Tarsi longi ; femora supra genua plumis maxirne denudatis ; 
DiGiTi longissimi. 
a. Tarsi longj the lower part of the thighs considerably devoid 
of feathers ; the toes very long. 
REDDISH EGRET HERON. 
(Ardea rufescens.) 
Ar. cinereo nigricans, capite coUo dorsoque postico fulvo-rujis, 
pennis dorsalibus posticis elongatis rujis, rostra Jlavo, apice pe- 
dibusque nigricantibus. 
Dusky grey Heron, with head, neck, and back behind, fulvous 
red; the dorsal feathers elongated and rufous; the beak 
'yellow, its tip and the feet dusky. 
Ardea rufescens. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 628. — Lath. Lid. Orn, 2. 
694. 61. 
L’Aigrette rousse. BuJ^. Ois. 7. 378. — Buff'. PL Enl. 902. 
