76 HERON. 



tips of the tail feathers are alfo marked with black : legs faffron- 

 colour : claws black, and much bent, except the hinder one. 

 Place. This bird inhabits Riiffia, about the River Don, coming thereto 



from the Black Sea, and Arabia* ; but does not ftray far inland. 

 It builds in trees. It feems a mere variety of the Sguacco, if not 

 differing in fex. Scopoli obferves, that at a certain time of the 

 year it emits an agreeable fmell. 



41. Ardea ferruginea, N. C. Petr. xv. p. 456. t. 16. 



FERRUGINOUS 



r>c r- „„.„ , T ENGTH twenty-one inches and a half. Bill ftrait, fharp : 



\J £SCR I p X I O N • | _ j * * 



the bafe greenifh fiefh-colour, the end brownifh ; the up- 

 per mandible fomewhat bent at the tip : between that and the 

 eyes, and over them, naked and green: irides faffron- colour : 

 feathers of the head, neck, and back, longifh, black tipped 

 with ferruginous ; thofe on the crown fomewhat elongated : chin 

 yellowifh white : wing coverts black brown j the outer ones have 

 ferruginous tips ; thofe neareft the body varied with rufous and 

 white : quills black : rump, breaft, and belly variegated with fer- 

 ruginous, whitifh, cinereous, and brown ; thighs, with rufous and 

 cinereous white : the wings, when clofed, reach a trifle beyond 

 the tail : legs green. 

 Place. This fpecies is found about the river Don, in the fummer 



only *, as it is migratory, coming from the Black Sea, and de- 

 parting to it again in autumn. Feeds on fifli and infects. Fre- 

 quently met with along with the laft fpecies. 



* Dec. Ruf.'u 164. 



Ardea 



