HERON. 
purple heron;-at the fame time blaming. the author before- 
mentioned. for his feeming contrad) ition, in defcribing it.as a 
bird of the 
anoy while es fill efteemed it only a youn 
former. kind. 
a Aiele enaite Anglais, (fays Viellot,) ; 
qui a — Je heron de la mer Cafpienne, attribue au jeune 
age les foibles differences ai exilent entre lui et le deren 
pourpré; cependant il le donne comme efpece diftinéte 5 omais 
on doit le rapporter.2 celle du heron eS This inter- 
pretation of Dr. Latham’s remarks is more abfolute than 
the paflages to which he alludes vil juftify, for thefe ex- . 
e~ only a moderate fhare of doubt; nor can we refrain 
rom adding, that sips a fubfequent attentive examination of 
the {pecimen in our poffeffion, we.are inclined to think the 
conclufion drawn by Viellot i is erroneous, for we really con- 
amet it to be an adult bird, and very probably a difting& 
pecie 
Mazon. Hind head with a long pendent creft; ‘Apa 
cinereous; line on the neck beneath, and pectoral bar black. 
Male.—Hind head fmooth, black; back blueifh, beneath 
whitifh ; breaft with oblong black ‘fpots. Female. 
Mas. Ardea major, Linn. Ardea criflata, Brif. Garza cine- 
rizia grofz, Zinnen. ae heron pe ae te ity heron, Alb. 
Common heron (m ale), D onoy. Br. Bird 
Femina. Ardea cinerea, Jinn. is rhenana, Naturf. 
Heron, Buf. Common heron (female), Donoy. “ue » rds, 
_ colour. 
‘neck and back very 
‘ i is oe to be oe and tolerably good eating in the rainy 
“leaic 
_in Britain; at this time.it is very.rare.. The af of ibis kind 
is half that of the great egret, or about twe 
Bes naked face and legs 
yellow. Gmel. Demi- -aigretle, Buff. emi-egret. 
Length not quite two feet ; cam part of the back with 
fome pendplous peatherts of an elongated form and rufous 
Native of Cayenne. 
RUFESCENS. rey; Jores and orbits green; 
feathers of the head and hm and longer narrow ones of 3 
back ferruginous rufous, Gmel. Hagate roufe, Buff. R 
difh aigrette, Ar&. Zool. 
Native of Louifiana. 
with dufky tip ; legs b 
Acai. Black-blue, beneath rufous ; hind head crefted : 
orbits and chin white. Gmel. sgami, Buff. <Agami 
ts two feet ; bill yellowith, 
heron. 
Length two feet feven inches ; ; the bill dufky; cap and 
ereft blue, the latter compofed of fix feathers ; lower part 
of the neck .and back tong fix long pendulous feathers. ‘This 
{pecies inhabits Cayenn 
Cocot. nd head, padi creft, and back cinereous 3 
in 
-neck beneath {potted with black ; fides of the head black. 
mel. Ardea cayanenfis cri ian Bri Ardea fecunda 
Tetr. Cocoi, Marcgr. Blue heron, Albin. a 
Inhabits Brazil and Caye The length of this bird is 
nne. 
pe feet ; the bill seepitnyslion' ; body cinereous ; creft 
five inches Find a half long ; Slices, chin, and crown white 
with very long pendulous feathers. This 
Jon nereous, beneath white ; pendent 
creft, aed ce Tet tinck ; feathers of ye throat jones 
from the - voracit £ : fith- 
y of its appetite is highly deftruétive i in 
ey In flying the heron foars to a vait height,. having pet and {potted with bla ck. Gmel. Johanna Up. 
the head crouched in between the fhoulders, and the legs Sine thcevtiin ¢° ae bill yellowiths face seiiced;lvellowile- 
4 “Dr. Latham from, 
ft * 
ruines, wool, feathers, and other light fubtlances, and ge- 
ree contains from. four to fix eggs, which are of a “die - 
laws were enacted for the eatin of the 
a perfon found. guilty even of deftroying their ean was 
ja mned to pay the penalty of twenty fhillings ea 
Y fum in the times when thofe laws were in force. 
thers of he Somewhat crefted; white; legs black; 
ers.of the back “ breaft lax, narrow, and ve 
- Guiratinga Great Zool. 
th two sles 
dirt . 
¥ yellow, and dufky at the back and ti 
South America. It is a fhy an 
— oe where it —— itfelf among the reeds in 
and feeds at ni em k 
Bx 
A. native 
Hind-head Sheds body white; 
x Aelia a minor, 
Ke. Aigreites Buff. Liutle 
ay bird. confitts ae feveral fhort and 
The ereft of this 
3 and the 
two a Aa ae is Sheree 
tegions, - Formerly loners > 
brun, 
cmt in 
= 
egret. Ar 4 
che creft fearcely vifibles bill black, “ bs 
apy , 
folitary bird, and fre- ¥ 
brown 
inhabits he Berea of; hacer 
en; legs brownifh. De {cribed b 
fine a drawings formerly i in the poffeffion of Drs Fo- 
thergi 
F Creft blackith ; body blackifh-brown, beneath 
ae es Lath. - Le heron 
white ; i. with long brown 
Heath, iy 
female differs from the 
ae with whitifh above 5 ; beneath white tinged with 
, H d and crefted; body cinereous ; 
rw the aki white 5 front varied black and 
white ; .wing-coverts blue and. cinereous, Gmel. Ardea 
imes found in the fens ck Wecino. 
its gi fin refe the pronun- 
rare {pecies, fometimes 
affon als i houhou from 
- word. ‘The bill is black ; legs ON 
