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webbed, hanging in the lighted and loofeft manner: 

 the legs are of a dark green almoft black : the fcapu- 

 lars and the creft were formerly much efteemed as 

 ornaments for caps and head-pieces j fo that aigrette 

 and egret came to fignify any ornament to a cap, 

 though originally the word was derived from aigre, a 

 caufe de Vaigreur de fa voix *. 



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, 



'O 



VI. The LITTLE BITTERN. tab. 17. 



Ardeola (le Blongios) Brijfen a<v. Kram. 348. 



v. 497. tab. 40. fig. 1. Boonk or long Neck. Sbaius 

 Ardea vertice don'oque nigris, Travels, zc^. 



collo antice et alarum teccrici- Ardea Minuca. Lin.fyjl. 240. 



bus lutefcentibus. (Stauden Ed*w. av. 275. 



Ragerl, Kleine Moofs-kuh.) 



/ T" A HIS fpecies was fhot as it perched on one of the 

 • trees in the Quarry or public walks in Shrews- 

 bury, on the banks of the Severn 'fit is frequent in many 

 other parts of Europe, but the only one we ever heard 

 of in England. 



The length to the tip of the tail was fifteen inches, Defer. 

 to the end of the toe, twenty. The bill to the cor- 

 ners of the mouth two inches and a half long, dufky 

 at the point -, the fides yeilow ; the edge jagged : the 

 bulk of the body not larger than that of a fieldfare. 



The top of the head, the back, and tail were black, 

 glofTed with an obfeure green : the neck is very long, 



* Bdonav. 195. 



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