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colour : crown of the head dark rufous chefnut : fides of the 

 neck rufous ; the feathers pretty long, and meeting behind, where 

 it is nearly bare : chin and fore part of the neck white, with a 

 feries of feathers on each fide the white, of a pale ferruginous 

 colour; each feather marked with a blackifh line down the fhaft: 

 on the lower part of the neck the feathers are long and loofe ; 

 fome of them nearly white, and hang over the bread, which is 

 brownifti black, this colour paffing upwards on each fide as a 

 crefcent to the back ; but the feathers on each fide have whitifh 

 margins : the back is rufous chefnut, with pale yellow margins : 

 the firft and third order of wing coverts like the back, but plain ; 

 the middle ones ferruginous, with a dufky line down each fhaft : 

 quills black; fome of the inner prime ones marked with chefnut 

 at the tips ; fecondaries the fame, with fome few of them wholly 

 chefnut: belly, thighs, and vent, white : tail black: legs green, 

 bare for three quarters of an inch above the knee. 



Inhabits Jamaica, where it is a rare bird. Place. 



Le petit Butor du Senegal, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 426. 20. 



Petit Heron roux du Senegal, PL Enl. 315. SENEGAL B. 



[^ENGTH twelve inches. Bill rufous brown, yellow beneath : Description, 



upper part of the head, neck, and back, rufous: fore part of 

 the neck the fame, but very pale, and each feather marked with 

 a black ftreak down the fhaft; but the loofe feathers which hano- 

 over the breaft are plain, and darker than the reft : down the 

 middle of the wing, from the fhoulder, reddiih ; the reft of the 

 wing, without and within, white ; but fome of the inner quills are 



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