HERON. 



1 6. 



CAYENNE 

 NIGHT H. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Bihoreau de Cayenne, Buf. Oi/l vii. p. 439. — PL Enl. 899. 



' i "HIS is as big as the European fpecies, but more (lender, and 

 the legs longer : length twenty-one inches. The bill black \ 

 the lore pale green : the crown of the head white ■, and a ftreak of 

 white from the noftrils paffes beneath the eye, towards the hind 

 head j the reft of the head is black, which ends in a point on the 

 back part of the neck : from the back part of the head fprings 

 a creft, compofed of fix long feathers of unequal lengths j half of 

 them white, the reft black : the general colour of the reft of the 

 plumage a blueifh afh-colour, but darkeft on the back and wings, 

 which are marked with a blackifh ftreak down the middle of 

 each fhaft: the quills are black: it is high mounted on its legs; 

 and the thighs are bare a great way up : the colour of the bare 

 part and legs is yellowifti. 

 This is found at Cayenne. 



17. Ardea (lellaris, Lin. Syft. i. p. 239. 21. — Stop. Ann. i. p. 125. — Brun. N" 



4-BITTERN. i 55 .— Mullen p. 22.— Kram. El. pi. xtfi.—Frifcb. pi. zo^.—Georgi 



Rei/e, p. 171. 

 Le Butor, Brif. Orn- v. p. 444. 24. pi. 37. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 411. 



pi. 21.— PI. Enl. 789. 

 Bittour, or Bittern, Rait Sjn. p. 100. A. II. — Will. Orn. p. 282. pi. 50. 

 52. — Albin,i. pi. 68. — Br. Zool. ii. N° 174. — Aril. Zool. N° 357. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. 'TPHIS is an elegant fpecies, and is fomewhat lefs than the He~ 



ron : length two feet fix inches. The bill brown, beneath 



inclining to green : irides yellow : the head feathers are long ; 



and 



