34 HERON. 



I. Ardea Pavonina, Lin. Syji.i. p. 233. 1. 



CROWNED H. L'Oifeau Royal, Brif. Om. v. p. 511. 1. pi. 41. (the female )—Buf.Oif. 



"vii. p. 317. pi. 16. — PI. Enl. 265. (the male). 

 Balearic Crane, Rati Syn. p. 95. 3. — Will. Orti. p. 275. pi. 48. — Sloan. Jam. 



P- 3 J +- 

 Peacock, Kolb. Cape, ii< p. 245.pl. 7. f. i^ 



Crowned African Crane, Edw. pi. 192. 

 Crown Bird, Voy. to Guinea, p. 253. pi. 1 1. 



Br. Muf. Leu. Muf. 



Description. IP H I S is as large as the common Heron; the length two feet 



Male. 





nine inches. The bill is two inches and a half long, ftrait,and 

 of a brownifh colour : irides grey : the crown of the head covered 

 with foft black feathers, like velvet ; on the hind part is a tuft 

 compofed of hair, or rather briftles, arifing near each other at the 

 bafe, and fpreading out on all fides in a globular form ; this is 

 four inches in length, and of a reddifh brown colour : the fides 

 of the head are bare of feathers, being covered only by a flefhy 

 membrane, of a reddifh colour at the lower part, and in fhape 

 not unlike a kidney: on each fide of the throat hangs a kind of 

 wattle : the general colour of the bird, blueifh afh. The feathers 

 on the fore part of the neck are very long, and hang over the 

 breafr. : wing coverts white ; the greater ones incline to rufous, 

 and thofe fartheft from the body to black : the greater quills 

 and tail are black, and the fecondaries chefnut : the legs, and 

 the bare part above the knee, are dufky. 

 Female. The female is black, where the male is blue afh: and the 



wattles on the throat are wanting : the long feathers on the breaft 

 are alfo lefs confpicuous. 



This 



