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1. AFRI- 
CAN. 
DEScRIP- 
TION. 
AFRICAN HERON. Cuass If. 
claws shorter than usual in the tribe. Length 
sixteen inches >” 
In the fifth volume of the Linnean Transac- 
tions, is a notice of a bird of this species having 
been shot in Oxfordshire, by John Horatio 
Dickinson, Esq.; another was killed in Dorset- 
shire ; a third near St. Asaph, in Flintshire, in 
November 1810. Ep. 
Ardea caspica. A. cristata cor- gula alba, collo lineis tribus 
pore cinereo, collo pectore nigris. Lath. Ind. orn. 698. 
abdomineque _ferrugineis, id. Sup. i. 237. 
[TWO only of this species of heron have been 
observed in England, one of which was shot in 
Ashdown Park, near Lambourn, Berkshire, and 
was preserved in the late Zevertan museum. - 
This bird is inferior in size tothe common 
heron, not exceeding three feet in length. The 
bill is seven inches long, of a dusky yellow 
color, blackish at the poimt; the head and 
greater part of the neck are pale ferruginous; 
the chin and throat white; the feathers on the 
head are long and black, forming a kind of 
crest ; a list of black runs down the back of the 
neck for two thirds of its length; a similar list 
continues from the eye on each side down to 
the breast; the feathers on the lower part of 
