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yellow : crown of the head blueifh afh-colour : the nape and hind 

 part of the neck brown, mixed with fillemot: the back and rump, 

 like the crown, mixed with dull green and rufous : the under 

 parts are white, fpotted with fillemot as far as the breaft ; from 

 thence to the vent afh-colour : the lefTer wing coverts are dull 

 green, with rufous edges ; the greater and quills black, edged 

 with white: the tail greenifh black: legs yellow: claws black. 



This fpecies is found in Chili, and other parts of America, on 

 the banks of rivers at a diftance from the fea. It is called by 

 fome Cra-cra, from its cry, which it exhibits in its flight. The 

 natives call it Jaboutra. It is met with alfo at Martinico. 



Place. 



Heron de la Cote de Coromandel, PI. Enl. 906. 

 Le Heron violet, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 370. 



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 VIOLET H. 



f-pHIS is thirty-three inches in length. The bill is dufky Description. 



brown : the top of the head, the lower part of the neck, the 

 body, wings, and tail, of a blueifh black, gloried with violet ; the 

 reft of the head and neck white : the vent and under tail coverts 

 the fame : legs reddifh brown. 

 Inhabits the Coromandel coaft. 



Place. 



Le Heron Agami, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 382. — PI. Enl. 859. 



ENGTH thirty-one inches. Bill long, dufky : the crown 



of the head blue black : the nape a light blue ; from this 



hang fix or eight long narrow feathers, the largeft almoft the 



whole length of the neck : back, wings, and tail, deep blue : the 



neck and under parts of the body rufous j but the lower half of 



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