55S 
RED-SHOULDERED HERON. 
(Ardea Hudsonias,) 
Ar. vertice cristato nigro, corpore J'uscescente subtus albulo, collo 
suhliis nigro-rufescente maculato, pedibiis Jlavis. 
Heron with the crown with a black crest ; the body brownish 5 
beneath whitish ; the neck beneath spotted with dusky red •, 
the feet yellow. 
Ardea Hudsonias. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 238. IS. — Gmel. Sysi. 
Nat. 1. 632. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 693. 57. 
Ardea freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 5. 407. 7- 
Heron de la bale de Hudson. BuJ^. Ois. 7. 386. 
Ash-coloured Heron. Edvo. Birds.pl. 135. 
Red-shouldered Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 342. — Lath. Gen. 
Syn. 5. 86. 52. 
This species, which is said by Pennant to be 
the female of the Great Heron, is three feet three 
inches in length : its beak is five inches and a 
half long ; the upper mandible is black, the under 
orange : the crown of the head black, and crested ; 
the longest feathers upwards of four inches in 
length : sides and lower part of the head white : 
between the beak and eye destitute of feathers, 
and of a greenish yellow colour: the back and 
upper part of the body grey-brown : the wing- 
coverts palest : the inner edge of the wing reddish : 
the neck is clothed with long slender feathers, 
marked with dusky bars on the hind part, and in 
front with broad white dashes down the centre of 
each feather : the breast white, mottled with large 
