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WHITE HERON. Cuass IL. 
the feet is fifty-three inches and a half, to that 
of the tail only forty; the breadth sixty inches ; 
the weight forty ounces. The bill is yellowish ; 
the naked skin between that and the eyes green ; 
the edges of the eyelids, and the irides, are of 
a pale yellow; the legs are black; the inner 
edge of the middle claw serrated; the whole 
plumage is of a snowy whiteness. ‘This bird is 
very common in many parts of Europe; Tur- 
mer says, that in his time this species bred 
(though rarely) in the same places with the com- 
mon sort; but we believe it to be seldom 
found with us at present,* any more than 
the following species mentioned by Leland,+ 
under the name of Egritte, in one of the bills 
of fare in the magnificent feasts of our ances- 
tors. 
* Dr. Latham informs us that one of this species was killed 
in Cumberland not many years ago. Ep. 
+ Leland’s Collectanea, vol. vi. 
