BLACK HERON. 
graceful manner : these, with the belly and thighs, 
are of a rufous cinnamon-colour : back covered 
with long slender feathers, which fall over the 
tail, and conceal about half its length : legs yellow- 
brown. Inhabits New Holland.” 
ELACK HERON- 
(Ardea atra.) 
Ar. nigricans, tectricihus alarum cinereo-carulescentibus, rectri- 
cibus nigricantibus, rostra fcdibusque nigris. 
Dusky Heron, with the wing-coverts of a grey-blue; the tail- 
feathers dusky ; the beak and feet black. 
Ardea atra. Grad. Syst. Nat. 1. 641. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
697. 71. 
Ardea nigra. Briss. Orn. 5. 439- 21. 
Le Heron noir. Birffl Ois. 7 . 368. 
Black Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 94. 64. 
This is described as being as large as the Common 
Heron : its beak black : the prevailing colour of 
the plumage the same, with a blue gloss on the 
wings : the space between the beak and the eyes 
covered with a bare black skin : the legs are 
black : the middle and outer toes connected at 
the base by a membrane. It is said to inhabit 
Silesia. 
