HERON. 
with brown, black and yellowifh ; creft purple and com- 
pofed of feven feathers 
Ivpica. Varied with pees and green ; fecondary quill- 
feathers green; tail black; wing-coverts, primary quill- 
“oa nd body beticath white. sath: Lohaujung 
“Length three feet ; or bill black ; 
and potterior part of the 
legs flefh-colour ; 
back with green 
. An Indian fpecies. 
Creft on the hind head and body black ; 
neck yellowifh at the fides, in, fron‘ chefnut, the f. 
thers edged with black and white. Lath. Yellow-necked 
heron 
Saas of India; the length two feet d 
Nov Hotianni#. Somewhat mreihed§ lead-colour 
cinereous ; beneath ferruginous rufous ; bie beyond. the 
eyes, with eed chin and throat, white. Lath. White fronted 
heron, Philli 
ngth Pidliogieight inches; the bill black, at the 
= yellowifh ; legs yellow brown, Native of New 
olland. 
Lupovictana. Head and aale rufous ; front white, 
- {potted with rufous ; crown crefted ; wing-coverts and tai 
«green ; back cinereous, sage with purple. “Gmel. Ag 
ys de la Louifiane, Buff. Louifiana heron, Arc. Zoo 
Inhabits Louifiana ; ‘length fixteen ic tese bill . ; 
LOLACEA. Hind 
Esk 
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——. FMS inches and a half; the bill black ; face 
about fix inches long ; 
dy - Gmel. 
Can crophagus ceruleus, Briff. or blue Be ee Ray. 
Blue bittern, Catefby. Blue heron, “Are. 
duiky pu 
the back Tradl cola It is found in Carolina during fpring 
after pailing the winter in Jamaica, and other We ‘Indian 
iflands ; the {pecies extends to Otaheite and other iflands in 
the South Seas, where the inhabitants — it with refpect. 
crow ; in the male the bill aa Naka are blue, - 
e the head and neck are © 
y tage ; head fomewhat crefted; 
few black fpots. 
Zool. 
chin whites back with a 
Lath. Rufly crowned "he = Are. 
Size of the common bittern ; the bill flender; bales and - 
legs yellow ; bk and quill-feathers dufky ; throat wit 
four black ftreaks ; feathers of the breatt hs aie ‘ 
from the ici: to the upper part of the neck a “black line; 
tail fhort and » lead-coloured. Native of North Aime. 
rica. 
Heropras. Hind-head crefted; bade brown ; thighs 
rufous ; breaft with oblong black: {pots Gmel. Arda 
virginiana criflata, Briff. Larger crefled b 
Great heron; er ool. = a on mene 
Inhabits the sakes and Sabra of Virginia, and ladda 
lizards, frogs, and fithes ; the bill brown; face pelle 
oe and Sr onaegen ick | neck and breatt rufous. 
eth five fee 
LUDSONIAS. 
Leneath whitith ; neck {potted with reddith black. Gmel. 
Heng freti Hudfonis, Briil. Heron de la, Baye de Hadj, 
Afb-caloured heron from North America, Edw. Red 
fale deren » Ara. Zool, 
by fome. writers to be the ing 3 s the lalt 
"Frequent North America ot v York to 
Perdavinons, beneath white ; hind head ii 
a long, white, pendent creft, edged with black. - Pallas. 
-  Cancrophagus luteus, Briff. Guacco, Buff.  Crabrier ‘de 
Mahon, B Squacco, Ray. 
Native of Afia and Europe, and has been once ro 
» England. 
this {pecies. 
Bavrinedntns ek: Hind head with a red pendent cre 
body white. Molina 
Inhabits Chili. 
Cyanoceruata. Hind head crefted, and with the tack 
blue ; wings black, were with white. Molina. Blu 
. Peade d heron. 
Native of Chili; the bill black 3 belly yellowifh green ; 
tail green ; legs ye How, 
Tuuta. Hind head crefted, and with the reft. of the 
_body white. Molina, Tula heron 
Found in Chili. 
CANpIDISSIMA. Snewy- white ; bill and legs blackiflis 
eyes and toes yellow ; creft very longs an and fhadi ay 2 he hind 
d, neck, breatt, < and back... Ja acquin. Snocw 
Inhabits near Carthagena in Ameria fize Jets than ” 
common bittern. 
Castanea. Chefnut, bicneath white ; Sate and eye 
ump white ; 
(Linn. Tranf. ) There are feveral varieties 0 
Another variety inhabits Queen Ch s found, where it brows green ; pouched = cl and ; 
is called Matook ; the head of this i is Y feaiowina crefted, crefted. Gmel. Ardea ralloides, Scop. Chef gt 
large. and the chin and throat white; the length © Length twenty inches ; the bill livid at ‘the bafe and brown 
eighteen inches. There are other fuppofed varieties, the at the tip; fides of the head yellowifh ; neck yellowith-bays 
_moft diftin& of which has the wee Nie with: brown, pice varied yellow and whitith ; quill ae a 
“yellow, and cinereous; the colour above fteel black, be- 
~ neath white ; wings and tail greenifh. This laft kind in- 
s South Americ 
a. 
- CaruLescens.  Creited ; ser dufky blue ; head a 
Berton Magar n hind part the head: with two ia 
. Eihe) Ze ride a on dry Bak 
Heron blewatre de Ca; 
ib. 
-Confidered by | fome . variety of the former; the length 
“nineteen can 3 bill pa w ; lores red; legs brown. 
Native of Cayenne. 
om hota ig « Betyugiaiiad,: beneath whitish with. black 
feathers white ; fcapulars “os — 
mel. Concraphagus, Bri 
3; legs faffron 5 ! 
Inhabit near the Tanais, extending thence fom a Black 
fome confidered 
as a’ variety, or saenat a fexual difference of ae 
“SankiePea... Sey ; creft on the head black, the the mi en 
and white 
fe. Crabrier eaints Bult. ‘Ser 
files Rage: 
Native of Italy, about’ Bologna, where it is. called ge 
jotta; the wor is 18. saahensg bill yllonsc® ed 8 
Crow erefted and black ; body brownifh, 
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