COROMANDEL HERON. 
577 
varied with rufous and white : quills black : rump, 
breast, and belly, varied with ferruginous, whitish, 
cinereous, and brown : thighs with rufous and 
cinereous white : the wings when closed reach a 
trifle beyond the tail : legs green.” The above is 
Latham’s description of this bird, to which is also 
attached tho following : “ This species is found 
about the river Don, in the summer only, as it is 
migratory, coming from the Black Sea, and depart- 
ing to it again in autumn. Feeds on fish and 
insects. Frequently met with along with the last 
species.”* 
This bird appears to be greatly allied to the 
Squacco, if it be not an intermediate state of some 
of the varieties of that species,. 
COROMANDEL HERON. 
( Ardea Coroniandelensis.) 
Ar. alha^ capite superiore cervice pectore dorsoque rufescentibtis. 
White Heron, with the upper part of the head, the top of tha 
neck, the breast, and the back, rufescent. 
Ardea comata, | 3 . Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 687, 39. 
Crabier de Coromandel. Buff. Ois. 7. 393. — Buff. PI. Enl.Q\ 2 , 
Sq^uacco Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn, 5. 75. 39. a. 
* Ardea ralloides, the Squaeco Heron. 
V. XI. P. ir. 38 
