AGAMI llEKOX. 
black spots ; the thighs are reddish brown : the 
belly and vent are white : tlie legs dusky : the 
hinder claw very long. Native of several parts 
of North America, from New York to Hudson’s 
Bay. 
AGAMI HERON. 
(Ardea Aganii.) 
Ak. cristata cceruleu, orbitis gulaqiie albis, collo supremo corpore 
subttis femoribusque ri^s. 
Crested blue Heron, with the orbits and throat white; the 
upper part of the neck, the body beneath, and the thighs, 
rufous. 
Ardea Agami. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 629. — Lath. Lid. Orn, 2. 
699.79- 
Le Heron Agami. Bujf. Ois. 7, 382. — Btiff". PL Ent. 859. 
Agami Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 70- 
This highly elegant bird is unquestionably the 
most beautiful of the genus : it is rather more 
than two feet and a half in length : its beak is 
about six inches long, and dusky, with the base 
of the under mandible pale : the crown, the crest, 
and the hind part of the neck, are bluish grey : 
the chin is white : the upper parts of the body, the 
wings, and the tail, are fine glossy green : the quills 
are black : the sides of the neck, as far as the 
middle, bright rufous, wdth an elegant white and 
