HERON. 
two morfels. The individual above-mentioned ufed to fly 
about the ifland, and rooft very high among the filk cotton 
trees 5 rom whence, at two or three yards diftance, it could 
yard ; when 
daner, with the head turning alternately ; as if hist to 
the converfation ; and during this time would every three 
or four minutes mute firft on one leg, and then on the other ; 
ates invariably, that if he had muted on the left lee 
laft, he would be fure to do the fame on the right the next 
time, never making any mittake. 
TorquaTa. Hind head et cretiee bac ko brown ; 
NYcTICcoRA Creft on the hind head white, horizontal, 
and config of three feathers; back black; abdomen 
yellowifh, Scop. male. Ardea grifea. Head fmooth, bfown; 
belly brownifh, beneath white ; firft quill-feathers with a 
white fpot at the tip. Linn. female. Ardea varia, Klein. 
Nitticorace, Sa 2 ee Buff. Night heron, pes 
onov. 
the male being about the. fame fize as the female. The bill 
vailing colour of 
e siemaat in the male is grey above, seth pure white ; 
Rs head, as far as the middle of the back, dark gloffy 
green; the creft of three tong Sag pendent feathers’; and 
the legs greeni fe » (which Linneus cénfidered 
a ‘different fpecies, ) ok crown is brown, and without creft ; 
the bod grey-brown ; eck beneath Wilh a rufty line ; ; 
lores white ; 3 tail feathers “edad with white, and the legs 
brown. pecies is an inhabitant of fome parts of Eu- 
rope and America. ue is recorded by Dr. Latham, and 
later writers, as a native of Britain, upon ue. authority of 
an individual battens of the male bird fhot near London in 
the + ag of May 1782, and which at this time is in our 
” Donov. Br. Birds.—'The Germans call it Nach- 
ir Night Raven; and the Ruffians K 
sts. Brown, beneath white; head aise 
JAMAI 
crelted; breatt and belly with brownifh itreaks. Gmel. 
amaica night heron, h. 
ut "the fize of the laft, or fearcely larger ; the bill 
dufky ; ; lores and orbits es reenifh; ons 
primary jcaegariae = 
Bs is known Stet 
woods, — Qrn Os 
na not, perhaps, diting pe the female of the 
“ CALEDONICA. Ferruginous, beneath white; creft on the 
hind head of three feathers; Foontlet black ; eye-brows wliite. 
Gmel, Caledonian white bircg. Lath. Cook’s Voyage, &c. 
Native of a South Wales. Length twenty-two inches; 
bill a creft feathers white; area of the 
a 
“Crett on B the hind head one feather; body 
h chefnut, Ziee wat a! ftriped,. with 
3 quill fea ith a white fpot a 
3 the bill recurved, reenifh- 
i crown, a nape 
* Lath. Ind. 
ath.) it is 
réally a diftin® {pecies from the former Osha pep jt 
~ lateft of the works laft mentioned, ler it a siting 
jente fatis 
dafky chefnut; back and wing-coverts dufky: chefyat and: 
golden green ; le egs fhort and greenith, Inhabits Sclavonia, 
AYANENsIs. Cinereous; head black; crown white; 
cre{t nae en nd fix feathers, half white, the remainder 
black. Gm ¢ Liboreau de Cayenne, Butt. Cayenne 
night heron, sen 
Length twerty-one’ inches; the bill black; lores pale- 
eeti; a white line from the noftrils beneath the eyes to the 
hind head; bedy: blueifath ; quill-feathers. black ; 
yellowifh ad long, the thighs bare high up. ‘This been 
inhabits Cayenne 
Purpurea. Hind head black ; ; creft pendent, of two 
long feathers ; body olive; beneath purpl Gmel.. Ar- 
dea re Pur ied s Pros: Brill. [Heron pour, aa Bull. Crefled 
pit mple e heron, 
er og os the common heron; the length two feet 
ten inches and a half; bill fix inches long, ice n, witha 
Piss point, and yellowifh beneath; head furnifhed with a 
ack 
half of the neck rufous, with thi & black: lines difpofed 
longitudinally, the colour behind abies; at the fides rufous, 
in front reddifh; from the breaft in the middle, to the 
vent a Bege band; lider ‘tail-coverts white varied with ru- 
fous, and tipped with black} 3 angles of the wings rufous; 
quill- feathers dark ; tail cinereous olive; legs greenith with 
dufky claws. This fpecies inhabits A fia, frequenting the . 
lakes of the Cafpian and Black feas, and thofe of Great 
Tartary, but is not found farther eait in Siberia than 
river — . 
Purpurata. Head without crett, and with the neck: 
blackifh ci cinereous; body above purple-chefaut; beneath ci- 
nereous.: Ardea purpurata, Gmel. A. purpurafeens, Brifl. 
gs Sd ae Buff. Purple heron; Lath. 
of the common heron. e upper t ea oil yellow- 
ease lower yellowifh; face naked an with; neck 
lineated above with black; quill-feathers Ti cies 
egs brown. Inhabits the banks of the Danube. 
late ornithologifts, according with Buffon, Lelieve this tobe 
the female e the former; others are perfuaded it is fpecifi- 
cally different. 
ASPIC ae Crefled; body cinereous ; neck, breaft, and 
belly ferruginous ; ids white ; ; neck with three black lines. 
Orn 1. Reife. Ardea 
St x 
This beautiful ae is the fize of the common n heron § 5 
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the {pecific name of aS ne and afterwar: 
he obfervation “ rarifiima m aft 
glia, *? under that of Cafpica. The original bird dept 
ormerly in the Leverian colleétio on, is now vin th 
only a variety, admits of fome difpute. he 
with a fuggeftion of doubt, * vix 
ripe onne avis annotina?’’ 
cotitinuation of Audebert’s ‘ Hittoire 
beg however, appearing to have mealies 
offers a more pofitive’ — B and confidered: it the 
reft ; orbits naked, and i stil chin white; upper, 
«STS nee een ea 
"Mont. Viellot, author of @ 
des Oifeaux,” 
