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LITTLE WHITE HERON. 
(Ardea ^quinoctialis.) 
Ar. alhay remigibus duahus primis inargine exteriore Juscis, 
pileo collaq^le in/'eriore luteis. 
White Heron, with the outer «dge of the two first quills 
brownish ; the top of the head and the lower part of the 
neck yellowish. 
Ardea ^quinoctialis. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 240. 25. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1. 641. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 696 . 70* — Leach. Cat. Brit. 
Mus. p. 33. 
Ardea carolinensis Candida. Briss. Orn. 5. 435. 18. 
Le Crabier blanc a bee rouge. Biif. Ois. 7 . 401. 
Red-billed Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool. Sup. 2. 66. 
Little white Heron. Lath. Gen. Sj/n. 5. 93. 63. — Penn. Arct, 
Zool. 2. 345. — Catesb. Carol. \ .pl.‘]’J. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 
^Mont. Linn. Trans, ix. 197* 
This is twenty inches in length : the beak is 
two inches long, and of an orange-colour: the 
lores and orbits the same : irides pale yellow : the 
entire plumage is snowy white, except the crown 
of tlie head, and the upper part of tlie neck before, 
which are buff : the legs greenish. The skin of 
this bird is very dark coloured ; so much so, as to 
give a dirty cast to the white plumage on the 
cheeks and sides of the neck. The feathers on the 
back of the head are very slightly elongated, as 
they likewise are on the lower part of the neck 
before. 
A single specimen of this bird has been taken in 
