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HERON. 



Inhabits America. Found in Carolina in fpring : in winter in- Place. 



habits Jamaica, and other iflands of the Weft Indies. It has alfo 

 been met with at Otaheite, and other iflands of the South Seas, 

 where it is much refpefted*. 



Le Crabier bleu a Cou brun, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 399; 4^ 



Heron bleuatre de Cayenne, PI Enl. 349. Var. A. 



HE length of this bird is nineteen inches. The bill is deep Description. 

 yellow : between the bill and eye bare and reddifh : head and 

 neck rufous brown : at the hind head fpring two long feathers, 

 which reach almoft two-thirds down the neck : the reft of the 

 body, wings, and tail, deep blue : legs brown. 



This inhabits Cayenne. Place. 



C I Z E of the laft : length eighteen inches. Bill two inches and 4-. 



a half; colour yellow : the bare ikin between that and the eye „ B- 



. Description- 



the fame : the irides alio pale yellow : the head feathers loofe, 

 and fomewhat elongated at the back part : general colour of the 

 plumage pale blue green : chin and throat white : legs yellow : 

 claws black. 



Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound, where the natives call it Ma- Place. 



took. 



* " So far are the Olaheitans from eating all kinds of birds, that they have 

 " a kind of fuperftitious regard for Herons and Khigfijhers, almoft like that 

 " which is paid to the Stork, the Robin-red- breaji, Swallow, and other harmlefs 

 " familiar birds in England.'" — Forft, Obf, p. 207. — Parkin/on talks of a grey He- 

 ron being facred at Ethooa, p. 70. 



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