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white spot at the end of each; in the feathers 
of the back of the neck, and upwards to the 
crown of the head, the white mark at the end is 
lengthened to a stripe. The throat is white, 
with a few longitudmal light brown lines, and 
the feathers down the neck and breast, which 
last aré long and pendent, are of the same 
color, the sides of each being more distinctly 
marked with a stripe of the brown; the belly 
and thighs are much of the same color but 
lighter ; the vent is white. The quil-feathers 
are dusky-ash-colored, tipped with white, and 
reach nearly to the end of the tail, which is of 
an uniform ash-colored grey. The bill is dark 
brown, the Jorwm and orbits naked and green- 
ish; irides fine pale yellow. It has a short 
crest somewhat inclining downwards. The 
legs and feet are a dull green; the toes very 
long, the claw of the middle one serrulated on 
the inside. 
I think this a species perfectly distinct from 
the Ardea Nycticorar, notwithstanding Dr. 
Latham’s mark of doubt. If we may reason 
from analogy, the specimen from which this 
description is taken, seems to bear one parti- 
cular character of a male bird; in the common 
Heron the pendent feathers on the breast are 
not found on the female subject, and the 
