HERON. 



ftreaks : throat white : the fore part of the neck, breaft, and 

 belly, are white, waved with brown ; the laft edged with yellow: 

 quills black and green mixed, tipped with white : the tail like 

 the quills, but crofled with white lines : the legs of a dark grey. 

 Inhabits Brqfil, and is accounted good eating. 



6£ 



PiACB. 



Arslea minuta, Lin, Sjjl. i. p. 240. 26. [i.—Kram. El. p. 348.— •FW/cA 



pi. 206. 207. 

 Le Blongios, Brlf. Orn. v. p. 498. 46. 

 Blongios de Suiffe, PL Enl. 323. — Brif. Oif. vii. p. 395. 

 Boo-onk, or Long-neck, SbaviTrav. pi. in p. 255. — Rujf. Alep. p. 71. 



pi. 10. — Edvj. p. 275. 

 Little Bittern, Br. Zool. App. p. 663. pi. 8. — Aril. Zool. N° 359. 



Lev. Muf. 



*Tp H E fize of this bird fcarce exceeds that of a Thrujh: length 

 fifteen inches. The bill is of a greenifh yellow j the upper 

 mandible black at the tip; the edges jagged: the top of the 

 head, the back, and tail, dull green : the neck very long ; the 

 fore part of it, breaft, and thighs, buff-colour * : belly and vent 

 white: the hind part of the neck bare of feathers, but covered 

 by thofe growing on the fides of it : at the fetting-on of the 

 wing is a large chelhut fpot : the lefTer wing coverts yellowifli 

 bufF; the greater whitifh : the web of that next the back half 

 buff, half black : quills black : legs dufky : thighs feathered to 

 the knees : middle claw ferrated. 



* In the PI. Enl. and Brijfon'i defcription and figure, the upper part of the 

 belly is fpotted with black. 



27. 

 LITTLE B. 



Male. 



Description. 



Vol. III. 



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Ardea 



