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HERON. 



60. 



Var. A. 

 EL A CK CREST- 

 ED WHITE H. 



Description. 



Pla 



CE. 



Le Heron blanc a calotte noire, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 380. 

 — — — hupe de Cayenne, PL Enl. 907. 



^T* HIS meafures two feet in length ; and the plumage is to- 

 tally white, except a patch of black on the top of the headj 

 the hind part of which has a pendent creft, compofed of fix long 

 narrow feathers. 



It is faid to frequent the rivers of Guiana, and is a rare fpecies. 



61. 

 SNOWY H. 



Description. 



Female. 

 Place. 



Ardea nivea, N. C. Petr. xv. p. 458. t. 17. 



'THE length exceeds two feet. Bill flout, ftrait, three inches 

 and a half long, and black : flcin round the eyes of a yel- 

 lowifh blue : plumage in general white: the head is fmooth, but 

 on the neck are fome feathers Handing out 3 and thofe of the 

 lower part hanging over the bread : back terminated with very 

 long narrow feathers of a yellowifh white : legs black : toes 

 faffron-colour : claws black. 



The female is lefs, and the neck and back feathers fhorter. 



This is found about the river Don in fpring, coming from the 

 Black Sea*-, and returns again to the fouth in autumn. It builds 

 the neft in high trees. I have feen a fpecimen of this bird 

 which came from China. 



6z. 

 SACRED H. 



Description. 



CIZE of the little Egret? length two feet three inches. Gene- 





ral colour of the plumage white: bill four inches long, dufky 

 brown : on the middle of the crown a few obfcure dufky ftreaks 



Probably alfo from Egypt, Arabia, or Greece.— Dec, Rnjf. i. p. 164.. 



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