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green : the irides of a pale yellow : the head adorn- 

 ed with a beautiful creft, compofed of fome fhort, 

 and of two long feathers, hanging backward ; thefe 

 are upwards of four inches in length : the whole 

 plumage is of a refplendent whitenefs : the feathers 

 on the bread, and the (capillars, are very delicate, 

 long, flender, and unwebbed, hanging in the light- 

 eft and loofeft manner : the legs are of a dark green 

 aimed black : the fcapulars and the crefc were 

 formerly much elieemed as ornaments for caps 

 and head-pieces ; fo that aigrette and egret came to 

 fignify any ornament to a cap, though originally 

 the word was derived from aigre, a caufe de P 

 toigreur de fa voi:: *. 



We never met with this bird or the crane in Eng- 

 land, but formed our defcriptions from fpecimens in 

 the elegant cabinet of Doctor Mauduit in Paris, 



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