HERON. 



Le Crabier de la Cote de Coromandel, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 393.— PL Enl. 910. 



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 Var. A. 



T ENGTH twenty-one inches. The bill is yellow : between Description 



the bill and eyes bare and grey : the head not crefted : ge- 

 neral colour of the plumage white : the upper part of the head, 

 and hind part of the neck, inclining to rufous ; as are the long 

 feathers which hang over the bread; there is alfo a rufous tinge 

 on che back and wing coverts : the legs are yellow. 



Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel. It feems to be a variety of Place. 



the laft, if not differing in fex. 



In the Br. Muf. is one anfwering in moft refpects to this, 

 except in having a creft compofed of feveral long feathers, flriped 

 duflcy and white, and reaching to the middle of the neck : the 

 feathers of the lower part of the back are narrow and long, and 

 reach beyond the tail : legs brown. I judge this to be a variety 

 of the male of the above-defcribed. 



Ardea caftanea, N. C. Peir. xv. p. 454. 9. t. 1 J. (Gmelin.) > 0# 



Ardea ralloides, Scop. Ann. i. N° 1 2 1. CASTANEOUS 



H. 



T ENGTH one foot ten inches and a half. Bill near three Description. 



inches long, black, the bafe of it livid : between the bill and 

 eye green : irides faffron-colour : creft reaching to the middle 

 of the neck: throat white: fides of the head yellowifh ; neck 

 the fame, inclining to chefnut: back rufous-chefnut, covered 

 with long narrow feathers : breaft, belly, wings, rump, thighs, 

 and tail, white, tinged with yellow in fome parts : the inner 

 webs of fome of the quills have a few fpots of black, and the 



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