HERO N. 



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Le Crabier marron, Brif. Oru. v. p. 468. 34. 

 ■ roux, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 390. 



ClZEof a Crow. The bill four inches in length, and brown : 

 irides pale yellow : the head and upper parts are chefnut : the 

 under parts of a dirty white : there is alfo a ftreak of pure 

 white down all the fore part of the neck and bread, quite to 

 the belly : the wing-coverts incline to blue : the quills black : 

 tail chefnut* : legs red. 



This is met with in Silefia ; builds in high trees, and feeds 

 on fifh, infers, &c. 



CHESNUr H. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Crabier roux, Brif. Orn. v. p. 469. 35. 



■ marron, Buf Oif. vii. p. 390. 



Ardea hasmatopus, feu Cirris, Rati Sjrn. p. 99. 7. — Will. Orn. p. 281. 

 pi. 50. 



CIZE of the Green Heron. Neck fliort: bill blue and green, 

 with a black tip : irides yellow, incircled with red : head 

 crefted ; the colour yellow and black : throat, neck, and whole 

 body, fafFron-colour, inclining to chefnut, paleft above : tail very 

 ihort : legs of a deep red, like thofe of a Pigeon : claws black. 

 Inhabits Italy, chiefly about Bologna. 



• This colour fhould more properly be termed rufous, as Sthviencfield, who 

 firft mentioned it, calls it ardea rubra. — Hifl. des Oif. 



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