86 HERON. 



Place. Inhabits Virginia, frequenting the lakes and rivers : feeds on 



lizards, frogs, and .fifh. 



n Rr> SHDTTI Ardea Hudfonias, Lin. Syjl.'i. p. 258. 18. 



DERED H. ^ e Heron de la Baye de Hudfon, Brif. Orn. v. p. 407. 7. — Buf. Oif. vii. 



p. 3S6. 

 Afh-coloured Heron from North America, Edvj. pi. 135. — ArB. Zoo!, 

 N° 342. 



Le-v. Muf. 



Description. '"PHIS is alio a large fpecies, though lefs than the laft: length 

 three feet three inches. Bill five inches and a half long j 

 the upper mandible black; the under orange : the crown of the 

 head black, and crefted ■, the longed feathers four inches in 

 length: between the bill and eye naked, of a greenifh yellow : 

 fides and under part of the head white : neck covered with 

 long (lender feathers, marked with dufky bars on the hind part, 

 and beforewith broad white dallies down the middle of each 

 feather : the back and. upper part of the body cinereous brown : 

 wing coverts paleft : inner edge of the wing reddifh : breaft 

 white, marked with long fpots of black : thighs reddifh brown : 

 belly and vent white : legs dufky: middle claw pectinated; hind 

 claw very long. 

 Place. Inhabits North America, from New York to Hudfon s Bay, fre- 



quenting the inland lakes of the laft place in fummer. By fome 

 fuppofed to be the female of the laft*. 



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