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JAMAICA NIGHTHERON- 
(Nycticorax Jamaicensis.) 
Ny. subcristatus JuscuSf collo abdomineque Jusco alboque striatis, 
tectricibus alarum apice macula triangulari alba. 
Slightly crested brown Nightherou, with the neck and abdomen 
striated with fuscous and white ; the tip of the wing-coverts 
with a triangular white spot. 
Ardea Jamaicensis. Grnel. Syst. Nat. 1. 625 .— Lath. Ind. Orn, 
2. 679. 14. 
Jamaica Night Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 54. 14. 
Latham has described this curious bird from a 
specimen in his own collection, in the following 
manner : Length one foot eleven inches : beak 
four inches long, and dusky : the upper man- 
dible bends a trifle downwards at the point ; the 
colour dusky ; the ridge of the upper part blackish : 
the irides pale straw-colour : between the eye, and 
round it, bare, and greenish : the head is some- 
what crested ; the crown dark brown ; each feather 
is streaked down the middle with ferruginous : 
neck the same, but the colours duller and paler : 
chin and throat white : neck-feathers pretty loose : 
the upper part of the back darker than the rest : 
the rest of the back and scapulars yellowish brown ; 
some of the last tipped with white : wing-coverts 
like the back, but the lower order of them much 
paler, giving the appearance of a broad bar : all 
the coverts white down the shaft, which spreads 
