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nalty of twenty /killings incurred on taking the eggs; but now out 

 of efteem, as is in a great meafure their Heiri, though rated at a 

 great price in former times, equal to that of a Peacock*. 



There is fcarce a place, either in the old world or in the new, 

 where this bird has not been met with : witnefs the relations of 

 numberlefs voyagers •, yet few talk of its migrations. Indeed 

 M. Ehnarck \ mentions the difappearing of the whole of the 

 Heron tribe from Sweden, in autumn : and this fpecies is faid 

 only to be feen in New York from May till Q8ober%. 



Ardea Herodias, Lin. Syft. i. p. 237. 15. — Scop. Ann. i. N° 1 18. GRFA I 'T H 



Le Heron hupe de Virginie, Brif. Orn. v. p. 416. 10. 



Le grand Heron d'Amerique, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 385. 



Largeftcrefted Heron, Catejb.Car. App-pl. 10. fig. 1.— Aril. Zool. N°34t. 



HP HIS is a very large fpecies: length more than five feet. Bill Description. 



full eight inches long ; colour of it brown, inclining to yellow 

 on the fides : the head is crefted ; fome of the feathers which 

 compofe it are five inches in length : between the bill and eye 

 bare, of a pale yellow : the neck and bread are rufous ; the fore 

 part of them fpotted with brown: all the upper parts of the 

 body, belly, tail, and legs, brown : quills black §. 



* " At PRINCIPAL Feafts. — Item, it is thought in likewyze that Hearon- 

 sewys be bought for my Lordes otvn mees ; fo that they be at xii d a pece." — 

 We likewife here fee the valae, by the companion : a Goo/e felling for 3^. or 4a 1 . 

 at moll : Partridges z d. apiece : PFoedcoch 1 d. or \\d. ; Snipes three for a penny : 

 alfo that the Herons^ Bytters, Pacocks, Fefaunts, and Curlews, were all of equal 

 value. — North Houf. Book, p. 104,. 



f Amcen. Acad. iv. p. 588. % Arcl. Zool. 



§ Scopoli fays, that the tail is black, and the vent rufous. Perhaps his bird is % 

 Slight variety ? — Linnaus adds, that the thighs are rufous. 



Inhabits 



