$8 HERON. 



the neck and the fides of it are covered with loofe blue feathers, 

 hanging longer and loofe on the breaft : from the lower part of 

 the back are-long (lender feathers, which hang loofe, and reach the 

 end of the tail : on the fides of the head, and juft above the eye, 

 the parts are white, paffing a little way in a line on each fide of 

 the neck : legs yellow. 

 Place. This is a moft beautiful fpecies, and inhabits Cayenne. One of 



thefe, which I fuppofe to be a female, is in the collection of 

 Colonel Davies. The bill is five inches and three quarters long, 

 and blackifh ; the bafe of the under mandible pale : the crown, 

 creft, and hind part of the neck, blueifh afh-colour: chin white : 

 fides of the neck, as far as the middle, fine rufous ; down the 

 middle of this a beautiful white and rufous line, bounded on 

 each fide with black : the breaft covered with long, loofe, black- 

 ifh feathers: thofe on the back part of the neck black, but 

 ftreaked down the middle of the fhaft with white : the upper 

 parts of the body, wings, and tail, fine green, like that of a 

 Duck's head, and glofiy; the under parts deep rufous: quills 

 black: tail brown. I have never feen the male; but by Buffon's 

 defcription it muft be ftill more beautiful than the female, and is 

 certainly the moft elegant of the genus. 



71. Ardea Cocoi, Lin. Syji. 1. p. 237. 14. 



COCOI H. Le Heron hupe de Cayenne, Brif. Orn. v. p. 400. 3. 



Le Soco, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 379. 



Cocoi, Rati Sy/i.p. 100. 15. — Will. Orn. p. 284.pl. 51. 

 Blue Heron, Albin. iii. pi. 79 ? 



Description. 'TPHIS is a large fpecies, in length above three feet. The bill 

 ofagrefnifh yellow: irides of a gold-colour; top of the 



head 



