BROWN HERON. 
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Ardea rubiginosa. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. Q'i2.--Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 603. 58. 
Rusty-crowned Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 358. — Lath. Gen. 
Syn. 5. 87. 53. 
The Rusty-crowned Heron is the size of the 
Common Bittern : its beak is seven inches long, 
slender, and yellow : irides yellow : head slightly 
crested : the crest and back part of the neck deep 
rust-colour : the forehead is dusky : the throat is 
white : the fore-part of the neck with four black 
streaks : the feathers of the breast long and loose, 
with a dark line passing upwards towards the back 
of the neck : the back and the wing-coverts are 
deep ferruginous, varied with a few black spots : 
the quills are dusky : the breast and belly are dirty 
white, striped with black : the tail short, lead- 
coloured : the legs are dirty yellow. Inhabits 
North America. 
BROWN HERON, 
(Ardea fusca.) 
Ar. crista capitis nigricantCt corpore fusco-nigricante siddus alho, 
pectore maculis Juscis elongatis. 
Heron with the crest on the head dusky j the body dusky brown ; 
beneath white ; the breast with elongated brown spots. 
Ardea fusca. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. /OO. 83. 
