HERON. 
fize, and hence are fometimes called the little herons ; it is 
chiefly from their diminutivenefs they have obtained this ist 
frequent the fens, and other watery places; 
reptiles, and the fmaller kinds of quadrupeds, 
diftributed by Gmelin in the following order. 
Species. 
* Crefied; Bill hardly longer than the Head. 
Pavowta. Creft briftly, ereét, temples with two naked 
wattles. Gmel. j Balearica, Aldr. 
Balearic crane, Ray. 
two feet nine inches. 
They are 
Virco. Behind 
feathers. 
Native of Africa and Afia. 
feet three inches in height, with the bill yellowith, the bafe , 
gteenifh, and the tip red; the head and primary quill-feathers 
are black, the latter long and pendulous ; cre pendent 
backward over the eyes ; and the head, neck, throat, breatt, 
and legs black. : 
** Cranes. See GRUES. 
: ** *® Svorks. Orbits naked. ~ 
_Ciconta. White; orbits and quill-feathers black ; 
bill, legs, and fkin red. Linn. &c. icog nc he: 
Briff. White fork, Ray. Donov. Br. Birds, Xc. 
éneral inhabitant of Europe, Afia, and Africa; feeds 
on reptiles and fifh, and is held facred in many countries for 
its great utility in deftroying ferpents ; it migrates at par- 
ticular feafons from one part to another in vat flocks, and 
in the moft orderly manner. Th 
neft compofed of iticks, and lays 
dirty yellowith white colour, in fize 
but rather more elongated. 
three or four e 
land it is a rare bird, and feen only im fevere winters. 
sae ab the fpecies is about three feet’three inches. 
2 maguari, 
Ys 2 3 2 ‘ 
Size of the laft, and inhabits the Brazils, and other warm 
oat 
aie 
“ 
e female makes a large « 
gs ora: 
like thofe of the goofe, ‘i 
The ftork fleeps on one leg, 
in doing tame, 
red ; bill cinereows ; » 
Ciconia Americana, American 
Europe, but is lefs common than the white ftork, and mi- » 
grates to the fouth in autumn; its haunts are thick foretts 
and marfhes in the mott fecluded fituations. Like the white 
ftork it feeds on fith and reptiles, and the fleth is eq 
unpalatable. 
*** Herons, middle Claw ferrated inwardly. — 
The griducdecee magnitude of this bird renders it the 
diftance, near iverss, 
which they do with their wings extended, may 
being accuftomed to be fed in 
attending that 
mafler’s chair 
The fervants 
Mr. Smeathman 
; hall, 
tl 
aor , watch it narrowly, and to defend the pro-_ 
vifions {witches in their hands; but notwithftanding — 
a bear 
as well as birds and repriles 
openly 5 it p 
