WHITE-FRONTED HERON. 
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small white patch : the chin and vent nearly white: 
the middle of the fore-part of the neck streaked 
with brown : the tail bright rusty chesnut : the 
legs yellow. Inhabits China and India. 
WHITE-FRONTED HERON. 
(Ardea Novae-Hollandiae.) 
Ar. subcristata, plumheo-cinerea subtus rufo-Jerruginea, fronte, 
genis, gula, jiigidorjue alhis. 
Slightly crested Heron, plumbeous grey 5 beneath rusty red ; 
with the forehead, cheeks, throat, and jugulum, white. 
Ardea Novee-Hollandiae. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2 . ^01. 88 . 
White-fronted Heron. Phil. Bot. Bay. pi. in p. l63. — Lath. 
Syn. Sup. 77.304. 18. 
Described as below by Latham, in the second 
Supplement to his Synopsis. “ This is about 
half the size of the Common Heron, being twenty- 
eight inches in length : the beak is four inches 
long, and black ; the base of the under man- 
dible yellowish : lore and orbits naked, and of 
a greenish colour : the body on the upper parts is 
bluish ash-colour : the crown of the head black, 
and the feathers elongated : the forehead, cheeks, 
chin, and fore-part of the neck, as far as the middle, 
white : quills and tail bluish black : the feathers 
of the breast are elongated, and hang down in a 
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