4 8 HERON. 



coverts, and quills, are black : the {kin, legs, and bare part of 

 the thighs, are red *. 



Male and female much alike. 

 Place and This familiar fpecies inhabits in turn the various parts of the 



old continent ; but avoiding alike the extremes of heat and 

 cold, being never met with between the tropics, nor fcarce ever 

 feen more north than Sweden, or in Ruffia beyond 50 degrees. 

 It never frequents Sibiria, though fometimes feen in Bucharia, 

 where it makes its neft; tending towards the fouthin autumn, to 

 winter in Egypt. It has fcarce ever been met with in England f ; 

 though it is well known, that in Lorrain and Alface, in France, as 

 well as in Holland, they every where build on the tops of the houfes, 

 and the good-natured inhabitants provide boxes for them to make 

 their nefts in ; this they not only do, but are particularly careful 

 that the birds fufFer no injury, refenting it as done to them- 

 felves. At Bagdad Ives faw a neft of thefe, June 13, on a dome 

 of a decayed mofque ; and fays that hundreds are to be (een on 

 every houfe, wall, and tree, quite tame J. At Perfepo lis, or 

 Chilmanar, in Perfia, the remains of the pillars ferve them to 

 build on, " every pillar having a neft of them ||." They are com- 

 mon at Aleppo § ; and in plenty at Seville ** in Spain. Thought 



to 



* The bill and legs are fometimes brown. Sahrne. — Such a variety I recoi- 

 led to have feen in the collection of that well-informed naturalift, Marmaditkt 

 *TunJlatt, Efq; whofe liberal communications on Ornithology I beg leave to 

 acknowledge. 



t Two inftances only are on record : Willugbby mentions one being (hot in 

 Norfolk ; and Albin a fecond in Middle/ex. 



% Ives's Voy. p. 299, 307. || Fryer's Tra-v. p. 25 I. § RuJ/il Alep. p. 69. . 



** In the winter feafon Storks are very numerous in Sevilli ; almoft every tower 



in 



