10-2 



HERON. 



Place. 



ipace between the bill and eye, and round the lad, is quite co- 

 vered with feathers : the general colour of the bird is a dirty, 

 cinereous grey; but the quills are black, and greatly exceed the 

 tail in length : the legs are yellowifh, and teflellated their whole 

 length, as is the bare part of the thighs : the claws are fmall and 

 black, the middle claw not ferrated. 



Inhabits Pondicherry, and other parts of the Eaji Indies. 



78. 



COROMANDEL 



H. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Le Bec-ouvert des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind vol. ii- p. 219. pi. 219. 



r"\IFFERS from the laft, in that the edge of the upper man- 

 dible is ferrated from the middle to the end, the toes united 

 at the bafe to the firft joint, and the wings reach only to the 

 tail : the head, rump, belly, and wing coverts, are white ; thofe 

 of the head are fhort, narrow, and erect : the back, quills, and 

 tail, black : from the bafe of the bill to the eye, bare and black; 

 this black bare fpace alfo extends round the throat : the bill is 

 rufous yellow : irides red : legs rufous yellow. 



Found on the coaft of Coromandel, in September, October, and 

 November. Frequents, like the Heron, the borders of rivers and 

 ponds, for the fake of fifh and reptiles, which are its food. 



79- 



SCOLOPACE- 



OUS H. 



Description. 



Le Courlan, ou Courliri, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 442. — PL Enl. 848. 



fTpH IS is a large bird, almoft equalling an Heron in fize : the 

 length twenty-five inches. Bill four inches long, reddifh> 

 with a blueifh point ; it is rather flout at the bafe, and nearly 

 ftrait, but inclines downward towards the tip : on the upper 

 mandible is a long furrow two thirds of the length of the bill, 

 in which the noftrils are placed, thefe feem to be a flit only : 



round 



