73 



HERON. 



44- 

 MALACCA H. 



Description. 



Place. 



Le Crabier blanc et brum, Bvf. Oif. vii. p. 394. 

 de Malac, PL Enl. 911. 



T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill dufky, with the fides near 

 the bafe yellow : between the bill and eye, and beyond, bare 

 and grey : the head and neck are ftreaked brown and white j the 

 whole of the feathers long, narrow, and loofe: the back is brown: 

 wings, under parts of the body, and tail, white: legs yellow. 

 This came from Malacca. 



4r- 



BLUE. 



Description. 



Female. 



Ardea csrulea, Lin. Syft. i. p. 238. 17. 



Le Crabier bleu, Br if. Orn. v. p. 484. 4.2.— Buf. Oif. vii. p. 398. 



Black, or blue Gaulding, Rati Syi:. p. 189. 3.— Sloan Jam. p. 315. pi. 263. 



f. 3. — Brown Jam. p. 478. 

 Blue Heron, Catejb. Car. pi. 76. — ArQ. Zool. N° 351. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE rather lefs than a Crow : weight fifteen ounces : length 

 near eighteen inches. Bill three inches ; colour blue, yellow- 

 ifh beneath : irides yellow: round the eye, and between that and 

 the bill, bare and yellowifh : the head feathers are fomewhat creft- 

 ed, and thofe of the bread elongated : the general colour of the 

 plumage deep blue, inclining to lead-colour : head and neck 

 changeable purple j the back covered with narrow, long, filky 

 feathers, hanging near four inches beyond the tail : legs green. 



The female has the head and neck of a dull purple : chin 

 white, paffing in a ftreak half-way down the neck before ; the 

 lower part mixed white and black in {breaks : the head is fcarcely 

 crefted : the back lead-coloured ; and the long filky feathers of 

 it, fo confpicuous in the male, wholly wanting. 



Inhabits 



