52 .HERON. 



iz. Le Heron no!r a collier, Brif. Orn. v. p. 440. 



COLLARED H. Ardeas congener, Rail Syn. p. 102. 19. 



The bird akin to the Heron, Will. Orn. p. 282. pi. 50. 



Description. gIZE of a. Curlew. Bill fhort *, yellowj marked at the end 

 and in the middle with a black fpot : plumage black, exr 

 cept a ring of white round the neck : legs black. 

 Place. Found about Bologna in Italy. 



13. Ardea nyfticorax, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 235. .9. — Scop. Ann. 1. p. 116. 



■*- NIGHT H, Le Bihoreau, Brif. Orn. v. p. 493. 45. pi. 39. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 435,, 



Male. pi. 22 PI. Enl. 758. 



Ardea Kwaka, N. C. Petr. xv. p. 452. t. 14. 



LeiTer afh-coloured Heron, or Night Raven, Rail Syn. p. 99. 3. — Will. Orn. 

 p. 279. pi. 49.— ///£/», ii. pi. 67.— Arc?. Zool. N° 356. 

 Lev. Muf. 



Description. '"PHIS elegant fpecies is in length twenty inches. The bill is 

 flout, three inches and three quarters long j black, with the 

 bafe yellowifh : irides orange : lore, and round the eye, green : the 

 crown of the head is greenifh black, extending a little way down 

 the back part of the neck,^ and there ends in a point : from the 

 hind head fpring three very narrow feathers, near fix inches in 

 length, of a pure white, with dufky tips : the hind part of the 

 neck, and fides, are afh-colour : the upper part of the back dull 



* In Willughby's plate the bill is curved, not much lefs than in the bird called 

 Ibis, in pi. 49. I therefore fufpett that this bird does not belong to the Heron 



genus. 



green ;. 



