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mouth, tending towards the hind head : the back (freaked black 

 and white j and from the lower part are long narrow feathers, 

 which hang over the tail, as in many of the Heron genus : the 

 whole of the under parts, from the chin to the vent, is of a dufky 

 blue : the quills are blueifh brown : tail doll blue : legs yel- 

 low : claws dufky. 



This fpecies is, found in Carolina, in the rainy feafon ; but at Place akb 



Manners. 



the Bahama Ijlands they breed among the rocks, in the bulhes 

 on the banks : at this Iaft place they are called Crab-catchers ■, 

 and are in fo great plenty, that one may load a boat with the- 

 young ones in a few hours -, being fo far from fhy, that they 

 will fcarce get out of the way of thofe who mean to take them. 

 They are accounted pretty good eating. 



Le Crabier roux a tete & queue vertes, Buf. O!/. vii. p. 407. 47. 



Crabier de la Louifiane, PL Enl. 909.— Artt. Zool. N° 350. LOUISIANE H. 



r ENGTH fixteen inches. Bill dufky: lore pale yellow: Description. 

 top of the head of a deep green, and lengthened into a creft 

 at the nape: the reft of the head, and neck rufous ; the fore part 

 of it white, marked with long rufous fpots : the back cinereous, 

 with a tinge of purple, and the feathers long and narrow : the 

 belly rufous brown : wing coverts dull green, with fulvous edges : 

 quills blackifh, many of them tipped with white : tail blackifh 

 green : legs yellow : claws black. 



Inhabits Louifiana. Place. 



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