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HERON. 



LITTLE B. 

 Female. 



Description. 



Place and 



Mannbrs. 



Ardea minuta, Lin. Syft. i. p. 240. 26. 



Le Blongios tachete, Brif. Orn. v. p. 497. 47. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 395* 



Little Brown Bittern, Ediv. pi. 275. 



CIZE of the former. The crown blackifh green : the feathers 

 on the upper part of the body brown, margined with pale 

 rufous ; beneath, the fame, but paler, and the feathers more 

 deeply margined with rufous : forehead edged with chefnut :. the 

 feathers on the fore part of the neck long, as in the other : belly 

 white : tail blackifh green, margined with fulvous at the ends : 

 legs greenifh. 



This and the former are by moft authors confidered as the 

 fame fpecies, of which the laft is fuppofed to be the female. 

 They have been found frequently in Switzerland, and met with 

 alfo in Arabia, but fcarce in other parts. We learn in the Bri- 

 tifh Zoology, that the male has been once fhot, perched on one- 

 of the trees of the public walks in Shrewjbury ; and another killed 

 in 1773, near Chrifichurch in Hampjhire, now in the Mujeum of 

 Mr. Tmijiall. In France they are likewife rare, only now and 

 then one being met with by accident. We are told that they 

 are common on the river Coic, near Aleppo; and that they are ob- 

 ferved frequently to Hand with the neck ftretched ftrait up- 

 wards *. 



28. 



+- MINUTE B. 



Description. 



IZE of a TbruJJj in the body : length eleven inches and a half. 

 Bill two inches long, greenifh, with a pale point : irides ftraw- 



Sl>aiu, 



colour 



