54 HERON. 



or Linnaus would have mentioned it in his Fauna. Pretty com- 

 mon in RuJJia, particularly on the river Don, where it builds on 

 trees : is met with alio at Aftrachan during fummer * : formerly 

 in plenty at Sevenhuys, near Leyden, along with the Spoon-bills and 

 other birds f; but the wood that grew there is now no more J. 

 It migrates, like many of the fpecies, being found at Aleppo; and 

 I have often feen figures of it in Chineje drawings ||~. In America 

 it is met with at New York and Rhode Ijland, and probably com- 

 mon to other parts of that continent. It is faid to make the 

 neft in the alders, and to lay three or four white eggs; but 

 fometimes builds among the rocks. The food confifts of frogs, 

 reptiles, and fijh ; and is faid not to be palatable food. 



The Germans call it Nachtrab, or Night Raven, from its un- 

 couth, rough voice, like a perfon {training to vomit §. By the 

 Ruffians it is called Kwaka, from its cry. 



f- TAMAICA T ENGTH one foot eleven inches. Bill four inches long, and 

 NIGHT H. dufky ; the upper mandible bends a trifle downwards at the 



Description, point ; the colour dufky ; the ridge of the upper part blackifh : 

 the irides pale ftraw-colour : between the eye, and round it, 

 bare and greenilh : the head is fomewhat crefted ; the crown 

 dark brown ; each feather is ftreaked down the middle 

 with ferruginous : neck the fame, but the colours duller and 

 paler : chin and throat white : neck feathers pretty loofe : the 



• Dec. Ruff. ii. p. 146. f Wilhghly. X Brit. Zool. 



II I met with a fpecimen of the female, at Sir Jofeph Banks's, which came from 

 China ; but in this every feather of the wings was tipped with white, and the 

 fpots were more diftinft than in the European fpecies. — Said aifo by Pernetty to 

 have been met with in Falkland's IJles. See Foy, auxMalouin. vol. ii. p. 26. 



§ Willugbby. 



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