HERON. 



48. 



STRIA FED H. 



Description. 



Place. 



Ardea ftriata, Lin. Sjft. j. p. 19. 

 Heron of Guiana, Bancr. Guian. p. 



171. 



Q I ZE of the common Heron. Bill ftrait, compreffed, furrowed 

 on the fides : head flightly crefted •, crown black : hind part 

 of the neck and back hoary : fore part of the neck ferruginous : 

 wings brown : fecondaries black at the points. 



This is Bancroft's description. Linnaus fays, that the back in 

 his bird is hoary, and flriated ; and that the fecondaries are white 

 on the margins, at the tip. 



Inhabits Guiana and Surinam : faid alfo to be at Aftrachan* irv 

 March. 



49. 



WATTLED H. 



PL. LXXVIII. 



Description. 



Place. 



QIZE of the Stork: length five feet fix inches. Bill red and 

 carunculated for one third next the bafe ; the reft of its- 

 length dufky black : round the eye bare and red : irides pale red : 

 top of the head blue grey ; the reft of the head and neck white :. 

 under the chin are two appendages like wattles, covered with 

 white feathers, as the reft of the neck : the back and wings are 

 blue grey : on the back hang fome long narrow feathers, as. 

 in many other Herons : the quills are black, and about even 

 with the tail : breaft, belly, and under parts, black : legs dufky 

 blue grey. 



Inhabits Africa, but is not a common bird. One of them met 

 with tame, in the Company's gardens, at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 from which a drawing was taken, now in the collection of Sir 

 J. Banks. 



* Decouv. Rujf. ii. p. 146, 



Ardea 



