YELLOW-CROWNED HERON. 
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of the head deep green ; the hind head adorned 
with a crest of the same hue : the rest of the head 
and the neck are rufous : the fore-part of the latter 
white, varied with elongated rufous spots : the 
back grey, glossed with purple, and its feathers 
long and narrow : the wing-coverts dull green, 
edged with fulvous : the quills are blackish, and 
some of them are tipped with white : the belly is 
rufous-brown : the tail is blackish green : the legs 
yellow : the claws black. 
YELLOW-CROWNED HERON. 
-e (Aitlea violacea.) • 
Ae. occipiie luteo crista alba, corpore albo nigroque strialo suhiuc 
ccerulescenle^ pedibus luteis. 
Heron with a luteous occiput and white crest j the body striped 
with white and black ; beneath bluish ; the feet yellow. 
Ardea violacea. Linn, Syst.Kat. 1. 238. l6. — Gmel. Spst. Nat,- 
1. 631. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 6gO. 50. 
Ardea caerulea nigra. Kaii. Syn. p. I 89 . 3. 
Cancrofagus Bahamensis. Briss. Orn. 5. 481. 41. 
Le Crabier gris-de-fer. Buff, Ois. 7 . 309. 
Crested Bittern. Catesb, Carol. ]. pi, 79. 
Yellow-crowned Heron. Perm. Arct. Zool,2.352. — Lath, Gat; 
Syn. 5. , 80. 46. — Wills. Amer. Orn. 8. 2Q.pl. Ixv.yi 1. 
Rather a small species, being only fifteen inches 
and a half in length : the beak about three inches 
long, and black : the irides are red : the orbits 
