9 o HERON. 



'9- 

 LITTLE Ardea Garzetta, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 237. 13. — Kram. El. p. 346. 3. 



EGRET. L' Aigrette, Brif. Om. v. p, 431. 16. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 372. pi. 20. — PI. 



Enl. 901. 



Ardea alba minor, feu Garzetta, Rati Syn. p. 99. 5. — Will. Om. p. 280. 



Egret, Br. Zool. App. pi. 7. — ArS. Zool. N° 347. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. QIZE of a Fowl: length near a foot : weight one pound. Bill 



^j ^ o o r 



black: irides pale yellow: the hind head crefted; two of 



the feathers are five inches in length, and narrow, hanging down 



behind in an elegant manner: between the bill and eye bare and 



green: the whole plumage is of a pure white: there are alfo on 



the back a fet of long loofe feathers, which cover and hang over 



the rump : the legs are greenifh black : claws black. 



Place and This fpecies is almoft a general inhabitant, being found in all 



Manners. " , riii^-i- 



the moderate and warm parts 01 the globe. Once in plenty in 



thefe realms*, now extinct : at leaft one being fhot in Angle- 



Jea has been thought a rarity -f\ In many parts of Europe and 



AJia not uncommon. Found in Africa, Ifles of Madagajcar and 



Bourbon ; alfo in great plenty in Si am %. On the American 



continent are met with at New York and Long I/land, fome of 



the Weft India IJlands, and Cayenne %. 



• No lefs than one thoufand were in the lift of the famous feaft of Archbifhop 

 Nevil. — Leland It. 



f Br. Zool. App. p. 631. 



J Seem to be the Criel Herons mentioned by P. Tacbard, which he fays Avarm 

 in the trees, fo as to be taken for bloifoms at a diftance ; the white mingled, 

 with the green rendering it a pleafing fight. — Harris Coll. Voy. vol. ii p. [468]. 



§ Mem. fur Cay. ii. p. 257 The author obferves, that the Egret i- flate-co- 



loured tor the firft y.ar ; grey, f r otted with white, the fecond 5 ana pure white 

 as fnow the third, which it retains ever fter. 



This 



