GREAT EGRET HERON. 
543 
Reddish Egret. Penn. Arct. Zool, 2. 3^S.—Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 
88. 56. 
Louisiane Heron. Wills. Amer. Orn. 8. 63. yl. Ixiv. 1.? 
This inhabits Louisiane, and is two feet in 
length : its beak is yellowish, w ith the tip dusky : 
the lore and orbits are green : the head and neck 
are clothed with loose, long, rusty rufous feathers : 
the back the same, but the feathers reach con- 
siderably beyond the tail : the rest of the plumage 
is dusky grey : the legs are dusky. 
GREAT EGRET HERON. 
( Ardea Egretta.) 
Ae. occipite cristato, corpore toio albo, pennis scapularibus longis^ 
simis laceris, rostra flam, loris pedibusque virescentibus. 
Heron with a crested occiput ; the body all white j thescapulary 
feathers very long and divided 3 the beak yellowy the lores 
and legs greenish. 
Ardea Egretta. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 629. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2, 
694. 63. 
Ardea alba. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 239.24. young. — Linn. Faun. 
Suec. 166. young. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 639. young. — Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 2. 695. 65. young. 
Ardea Candida. Briss. Orn. 5. 428. 15. young. 
Ardea alba major. Rail. Syn. gg. a. 4. 
La grand Aigrette. Buff. Ois. 7. 377- — F‘1. Enl. Q25. 
Le Heron blanc. Buff. Ois. 7. 365. young. — Buff. PI. Enl.686. 
young. 
Heron Aigrette. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 366. 
