+4 HERON. 



but the tip of the under mandible is pale flefh-colour : the top 

 of the head covered with a red fkin thinly befet with hairs : cheeks- 

 and throat whitifh : the hind head and neck are cinereous : the 

 upper part of the back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, pale ru- 

 fous, margined with brown; the lower and rump cinereous : the 

 bread, belly, thighs, and fides, afh-colour, changing to white at 

 the vent : the greater wing covert fartheft from the body, black- 

 ifh brown ; thofe neareft the body grey, forming a band on 

 the wing: the greater quills dark brown, with white fhafts; 

 the fecondaries pale rufous : fome of thefe laft are long and 

 narrow, and reach beyond the greater quills : the tail of a deep 

 afh-colour : legs and bare part of the thighs black. 



Scarce any difference between the male and female. 

 Place and This is likewife a fpecies peculiar to America; migrating at the 



different feafons, as the former. Seen by Kalm fo early as the 7th 

 of February , paffing over New Jerfey and Penfylvania; but he fays 

 they are feen in much fewer numbers than formerly. Come into 

 the parts about Hudfon's Bay in May : lay two eggs, and have the 

 fame manners as the laft : will alfo eat corn, and at times do da^ 

 mage by eating the maize*. The flefh is thought good by 

 many. Called at Severn River the Blue Crane, by the natives 

 Samak-uchecha.uk . 



This is probably Willughby's Indian Crane f ; which he fays is 

 lefs than the common one, but the bill larger in proportion : the 

 top of the head red, fet with long hairs : the body afh-colour j 

 and the tail fhort, being hid by the feathers. Ray fuppofes it 

 to be the Toquihoyotl of Hernandez, which is a Mexican fpecies Jo 



* Artt. Zool. t Orn. p. 275. 



J Sjn. p. 95. 2. — See alfo la Grue du Mexique, Brif. v. p. 380. 



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