34 o COMMON HERON. Clafs If. 



and the coverts of the wings are grey : the back is 

 clad only with down, and covered with the {"capillar 

 feathers : the fore part of the neck is white, elegantly 

 fpotted with a double row of black : the feathers are 

 long, narrow and unwebbed, falling loofe over the 

 bread; the fcapulars formed in the fame manner, 

 are grey ftreaked with white. The ridge of the wing 

 is white : the quil feathers and the baftard wing are 

 black : on the fides, beneath the moulders, is a bed 

 of black that continues quite to the tail. The bread, 

 belly and thighs are white •, the laft dafhed with yel- 

 low : the tail confifts of twelve feathers, and is afli- 

 colored : the legs a dirty green : the claws fhort : the 

 inner edge of the middle claw is finely ferrated- 



II. The COMMON HERON, fab. 6*. 



Ardea Pella, five cinerea. Gefner Ardea cinerea. Lin. fyfi. 236. 



a<v . 211. - Danis & Norv. Heyre v. Hegrc. 



Ardea cinerea tertia. Aldr. av. Cimbris Skid-Heire, Skred- 



i;i. 159. heire. Norvegis etiam Reyger. 



Theblue Heron. Turner. Brunnich 156. 



ALiro'-vandus, his third kind of J_,e Heron. Brijfan av. v. 292* 



afh-colored Heron. Wil. orn. tab. 34.. 



C79. Br. Zool. ii 6. 

 Ran Jyitt av. 98. 



THIS bird is remarkably light in proportion to 

 its bulk, fcarce weighing three pounds and a 

 half: the length is three feet two inches •, the breadth 

 live feet four inches. The body is very fmall, and 

 always lean ; and the fkin fcarce thicker than what i-s 

 •called gold-beater's fkin. It muft be capable of bear- 

 ing a long abftinence, as its food, which is fifh and 



frogs, 



