SQUACCO HERON. J 53 



The entire length of the Squacco Heron is seventeen 

 inches : beak two inches six lines from the forehead to the 

 tip ; tarsus two inches ; unfeathered part of the tibia nearly 

 one inch ; middle toe, including the claw, two inches seven 

 lines ; tail three inches ; wing from the carpus to the tip 

 nearly nine inches. 



The feathering of the forehead and crown is yellow streaked 

 with black. A pendant crest falls from the occiput, of 

 eight or ten long and narrow white feathers edged with 

 black. The throat is white ; the neck, breast, upper 

 part of the back, and scapulars pale orange cream-colour; 

 middle and lower part of the back ferruginous chestnut ; 

 (these feathers are tinged with purple, and are long and loose, 

 reaching almost to the tip of the tail ;) the rest of the 

 plumage white. The beak is bluish green, with a black tip ; 

 lore and orbits greenish ; iris yellow ; legs and feet are oil 

 yellow, tinged with bluish green. 



