HERON. 9 i 



This fpecies, like others of die Heron tribe, frequents marfhes 

 and banks of ftreams, and feeds onfijh. 



Ardea alba, Lin. Sy/l. i. p. 239. 24. — Faun. Suec. \66. — Scop. Ann, i. JP°* ._ 



-+- GRE4T 

 N° 126,—Kram. El. p. 346. 2. WHITE H 



Le Heron blanc, Brif. Orn. v. p. 428. 15. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 365. — PI. 



Enl. 886. 

 Great wnite Gaulding, Sloan yam. p, 314. pi. 266. — Brotun yam. p. 478. 



— Rail Syn. p. 189. !. 

 Great white Heron, Rati Syn. p. 99. A. 4. — Will. Orn. p. 279. pi. 49.— 



Br. Zool. ii. N° 175, — Ar3. Zool. N° 344. 

 B r . Muf. Lev. Muf. 



nPHIS fpecies meafures three feet fix inches in length, and is Description. 



of a fize proportionate. The bill is above fix inches long, 

 and yellow: irides pale yellow: the plumage wholly of a pure 

 white : legs black, inclining to green on the thighs. 



This bird is very rarely found in England* ; but is fufficiently Place and 

 common on the continent of Europe. Not very plenty in Sweden. 

 Found about the Cafpian and Black Seas, the lakes of Great Tar- 

 tary, and the river Irtifch, and fometimes as high as lat. £2 t* 

 Alfo met with in the fouthern parts of America. Migrates north- 

 ward in fpring. Found at New York from June to October ; at 

 other times found in Jamaica ± and Brafil% : found alfo by our 

 circumnavigators at New Zealand I. 



• One of them was fhot not many years ago in Cumberland.— -Dr. Heyjham. 



t Aril. Zool. 



X Where ithaunts_/ra marfhes, fait ponds, &c. and feeds on fmall fifhes and 

 fifh fry. — Sloane. 



§ L'Heron blanc du Brefil, Brif. Orn. v. p. 434. — This is not fo long by fix 

 inches. 



U In Di'fky Bay. Cook's Voy. i. p. 87. — Forfl, Voy. i. p. 1 77. 



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