HERON. 



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head cinereous j the fides of the upper part black ; the feathers 

 of the hind head are cinereous, very long and narrow, forming a 

 handfome creft, being about five inches and a half in length * : 

 between the bill and eye bare and cinereous : cheeks, throat, and 

 neck, white ; the fore part of the laft marked with a double row 

 of longifh dufky fpots ; the feathers of the lower part very long, 

 and hang over the breaft : the reft of the bird fine pale afh-co- 

 lour : on the back the feathers are long and narrow, and hang 

 down behind, like many of this genus : the legs are afh-colour. 



Inhabits Brafil and Cayenne. Said to be pretty good eating in 

 the rainy feafon, at which time it is fat. 



Place. 



Ardea rufa, Scop, Ann. i. N° 119. — Kram. El. p. 347. N° 6. 



T ESS than the common Heron. Bill feven inches long: from 

 the eye to the nape on each fide a black ftreak : head, neck, 

 belly, quills, and tail, black : breaft rufous : temples and thighs 

 ferruginous: lower part of the neck whitifh, marked with longi- 

 tudinal brownifh fpots : the upper part of the neck, the back, 

 and wings, cinereous brown : legs brown. 

 Inhabits the Auftrian dominions. 



72. 

 RUFOUS H. 



Description. 



Pla 



CE. 



CIZE fmall. Bill long, pale yellow : upper part of the plu- 

 mage brown, dafhed with a paler brown ; under parts the 

 lame, but more dilute : quills and tail black : legs green. 



Inhabits China, and called Soy-ie. The defcription taken from 

 a collection of Cbineje drawings. 



* Only two of the feathers are of this length.— Willughby. 



O 2 SIZE 



73- 

 CHINESE H. 



Description. 

 Place. 



