MEXICAN HERON. 
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base : between the beak and the eye, and the orbits, 
naked, and grey : the head and neck are streaked 
with brown and White : the whole of the feathers 
are long, narrow, and loose : the back is brown : 
the wings, the under parts of the body, and the tail, 
are white : the legs yellow. Inhabits the Malacca 
isles, and other parts of India. 
MEXICAN HERON. 
(Ardea spadicea.) 
Ar. castaneo-purpureoy capite remigibusque spadiceis, vertice 
nigro. 
Chesnut-pxirple Heron, with the head and quills chesnut ; the 
crown black. 
Ardea spadicea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 641. — Lath. Ind. Orn.2, 
6gg. 76. 
Ardea Mexicana purpurascens. Briss. Orn. 5. 422. 13. 
Le Crabier pourpre. Buff". Ois. 7 - 402. 
Mexican Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. pS. 67* 
This is a small species, and is perhaps only the 
young of some other : it is twelve inches in length : 
the crown of the head is black, the rest of the 
head is pale chesnut : the prevailing colour of the 
plumage is of a purplish chesnut, the under parts 
being palest : the quills and tail are chesnut. It 
inhabits Mexico. 
