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SQUACCO HERON. Cuass I. 
g. Sevacco. Ardea comata. A. cristatalu- Cancrofagus. ‘luteus. . Brisson 
DEscRIP= 
TION: 
teo rufescens, uropygio. cor- av. v. 472. 
pore’ subtus alis caudaque -Crabier. de Mahon. | Hisé. 
albis. Lath. Ind. orn.687. . dots. vii. -893. Pl, -Enl. 
id. Syn. v.74. 7d. Sup. i. 348. 
302. BE Squacco. Rai Syn. av. 99. 
Gm. Lin. 682. Wil, orn. 281. 
[ONLY one instance is recorded of this bird 
having ‘been seén in England, which was shot 
by ‘Mr. Lambert at Boyton, in‘ Wiltshire, in 
1775. 
Its length is eighteen inches. The'billis of a 
livid red, with a brown tip ; the dorwm greenish ; 
the irides yellow ; the crown of the head much _ 
crested, six of the feathers hanging quite down 
to the beak ; these are narrow, white margined 
with black; the neck and breast pale ferrugi- 
nous; the feathers on the first very long and 
loose; the back ferruginous, inclining to violet, 
and furnished with long narrow feathers which 
reach beyond the wings, when they are closed, 
and fall over them ; the wings, rump, tail, belly, 
and vent, white; the tail pretty long; the legs 
stout, of a greenish yellow ; the claw of the mid- 
dle toe serrated within. Ep. 
“ Tt is met with near Bologna, and is there 
