HERON. S3 



green : the lower part, rump, wings, and tail, pale afh-colour : 

 the forehead, and reft of the body, white : legs yellowifh green : 

 claws dufky. 



Ardea Grifea, Lin. Syft. i. p. 210. 22. '3> 



t h • z? v n +" NIGHT H. 



Le Heron gris, Brif. Qrn. v. p. 412. 9. 



Femelle du Bihoreau, PL Enl. 759- 



qIZE of the laft. Bill the fame: lore white: crown of the Description. 



head brown and glofiy : the upper parts of the body the fame, 

 but with a tinge of grey ; the hind parts of the neck paleft, and 

 ftreaked with darker brown down the ihaft; and the lower part 

 of the back and rump almoft grey : over the eye, from the nof- 

 trils, is a whitifh ftreak, mixed with brown : the cheeks are of a 

 mixed white and brown colour : the chin is white; but the fore 

 part of the neck is grey, marked with a yellowifh ftreak down 

 each lhaft ; the feathers towards the bottom of the neck longer 

 than the others : the reft of the under parts grey, growing white 

 on the belly and vent : the wings are grey brown, ftreaked 

 with yellowifh white; fome of the greater coverts tipped with 

 white: the quills are cinereous grey; and the eighteen firft have 

 white tips : tail the fame colour; all, except the two middle fea- 

 thers, marked more or lefs with white at the ends : legs grey 

 brown. 



This bird is common both to Europe and America; but, except Place a>nd 

 in a fingle inftance, I do not hear of its having been met with in 

 England* : it is moft likely not met with fo far north as Sweden, 



Manners., 



* One of thefe, a male, is in the Leverian Mu/eum ; which was ftiot, not 

 many miles from London, in the month of May, 1782. 



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