HERON. 



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white; on each fide of the head, about the ears, is a bare white 

 fpot; the reft of the head, and a final] part of the neck, covered with 

 a fine red fkin, and is alfo deftitute of feathers : the plumage of 

 the bird is afh-colour, lightest about the neck : the quills are 

 black: tail and fecondaries afh-colour; thofe neareft the body are 

 pointed at the ends, longer than the quills, and hangover them : 

 the legs, and bare fpace above the knee, are red : the claws white; 

 the middle and outer toe connected by a membrane as far as the 

 firft joint. 



This fpecies inhabits the Eaft Indies, alfo the Mongolian De- Place and 

 farts; from whence it migrates into that part of the Ruffian domi- 

 nions which lies beyond Lake Baikal, keeping chiefly wit 1 in 

 the plains below the rivers Onon and Argun, which is the weftern 

 extremity of the Gobean Plain *. 



La Grue a Collier, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 307.— PI. Ed. 865. 4 . 



Br.Muf. Lev. Muf. Var. A. 



Q I Z E very large : length four feet three inches and a half. Description, 



Bill long and black : the head, and neck for above half its 

 length, are almoft naked, being covered with a reddiih white 

 down j round the middle of the neck is a collar of red : the lower 

 part of the neck, and the reft of the body, of a blueifh afh-colour : 

 on the rump is a tuft of flowing feathers, which hang over the 

 ends of the wings and tail, as in the common Crane : the tail is 

 black : the legs dufky. 



Inhabits the Eaft Indies. Piace» 



* Mr. Pennant,, 



Ardea 



