MINUTE HERON. 
587 
Ardea Philippensls. Gmel. Sysi, Nat. 1. 644. — Lath. hid. Orn. 
2. 686. 35. 
Cancrofagus Philippensis. Briss. Orn. 5. 4/4, 38. pi. 2, 
Le petit Crabier, Ois. 7. 3Q5. — Buff. PI. Enl. 898. 
Philippine Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 72. 35. 
The Philippine Heron is only eleven inches in 
length : its beak is greenish yellow ; between this 
and the eye naked, and green ; the top of the 
head and all the upper parts of the neck are rufous 
brown ; the former most inclined to brown : the 
back is crossed with transverse rufous and brown 
lines : the wings are black, with rufous white : 
the quills and tail are black : the fore-part of the 
neck dirty rufous white : the belly, the thighs, and 
the vent, are white : the legs are yellow. Inhabits 
the Philippine islands. 
MINUTE HERON. 
•4~( Ardea exilis.) 
Ar. riffb-cnstaneus, collo rujb, nntice abdomineque albo, lunula 
pectorali remigibus rectricibusque nigris. 
Red-chesnut Heron, with the neck rufous ; the fore-part and 
abdomen white ■, a pectoral lunule, the quills and tail-feathers 
black. 
Ardea exilis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1, 645. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
683. 29. 
Least Bittern. Wills. Amer. Orn. 8. 37. pi. \w. f. 4. 
Minute Bittern. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 66. 28. 
