HERON. 9S 



the legs are black : the middle and outer toe connected at the 

 bafe by a membrane. 



Inhabits Silefia. Place. 



Ardea purpurea, Lin. St/l. i. p. 236. 10. 65. 



Le Heron pourpre hups, Brif. Orn. v. p. 424. pi. 36. fig. 2. - PURPLE F 



Le Heron pourpre, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 369. — PI. Enl. 788 



"O AT HER lefs than the common Heron : length two feet ten Description. 



inches and a half. Bill fix inches, brown, with a dufky 

 point; beneath yellowifh : the top of the head is crefted with 

 narrow pointed black feathers, fome of them near five inches in 

 length : round the eyes bare and yellowifh : from the gape to .the 

 hind head a narrow ftreak of black: chin white: the neck for 

 half the length is rufous, marked with three longitudinal black 

 lines, the reft of the neck cinereous olive behind, rufous on the 

 fides, and rufous white before, where each feather is dafhed 

 with black, and is long and narrow, hanging over the breaft ; the 

 loweft of thefe are white at the ends : the upper parts of the body 

 are glofly olive: fome of the fcapulars long and narrow, ending in 

 a point, with rufous tips : the under parts are of a bright purplifh. 

 chefnut, with a band of black from the middle of the breaft to 

 the vent: under tail coverts white, mixed with rufous, and 

 tipped with black : thighs rufous : edge of the wing the fame: 

 wing coverts bright dark olive, fome of them edged with rufous ; 

 the greater ones fartheft from the body dark afti-colour : quills 

 dark : tail cinereous olive : legs greemfh : claws dufky. • 



Inhabits the fouthenvlatitudes, towards and about the Cafpian Place* 



and Black Seas-> as alfo the lakes of Great I'art.ary, and the 

 6 river 



