6 4 



HERON, 



25. 



LINEATED B. 



Description. 



Place and 



Manners. 



L'Onorc raye, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 432. — PL Enl. 860. 

 Lev. Muf. 



^TpHIS fpecies is rather larger than the laft : in length two feet 

 fix inches. The bill and lore are both blue ; the laft bare the 

 whole breadth of the bafe of the mandibles: the upper parts of the 

 head and neck are bright rufous, crofied with numerous brown 

 lines : down the fore part pafTes a ftreak of white, beginning at 

 the chin ; this is bounded half way by dafhes of brown, and 

 the lower half mixed along with the white itfelf : the upper parts 

 of the body are crofTed with fine waved lines of rufous, pale yel- 

 low, and brown : the under parts of the body dirty white : quills 

 and tail black : legs yellow. 



This frequents the banks of the rivers at Cayenne, with the laft: 

 moftly found fingle. Like our fpecies, when one is fhot it 

 makes great defence, throwing out the neck fuddenly, when it 

 can ftrike at the enemy with advantage, efpecially at the eyes. 

 One of thefe kept tame, was of lingular ufe in deftroying rats, 

 watching them with all the attention of the houfe cat, and even 

 with better fuccefs. 



26. 

 YELLOW B. 



Description. 



Le Butor du Brefil, Brif. Orn. v. p. 460. 30. 



■ jaune du Brefil, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 429. 

 Ardea bras, roftro ferrato, cinerea: fimilis, Rait Syn. p. 101. 16. 

 Brafilian Bittern, with a ferrated bill, Will. Orn. p. 285. 



1ZE of a Duck: length two feet three inches. Bill four inches 

 and a half long, ferrated next the point; brown, with a pale 

 green bafe: hides golden: the head and hind part of the neck 

 are pale yellow, ftreaked with black : back brown, with yellowifh 



ftreaks : 



