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HERON. 



A Var. 



85 Cinereous 



86 Greater Red 



87 Crested Purple 

 SS Purple 



89 African 



90 Malacca 



91 Senegal 



92 Specious 



93 Sumatran 



94 Painted 



95 Agami 



96 Chalybeate 



97 Cocoi 



98 Chinese 



99 Dusky 



100 Dry 



101 Pacific 



102 White-fronted 



103 New Zealand 



104 Ominous 



105 Black-shouldered 



106 Lepid 



107 Clouded 



108 White-throated 



109 Blue-headed 



110 Blue-crowned 



111 Yellow-winged 



112 Black 



113 New Guinea 



1 14 Cracra 



115 Yellow-necked 



116 Scolopaceous 



***** Bill gaping in the 

 middle. 



117 Coromandel. 



>IRDS of this Genus have a long, strong, sharp-pointed bill. 

 Nostrils linear. 

 Tongue pointed. 



Toes connected by a membrane, at least as far as the first joint; 

 the middle claw of the true Herons pectinated. 



* THE HEAD CRESTED. 



1. — CROWNED HERON. 



Ardea Pavonina, Ind.Orn.'n. 672. Lin.i. 233. Qm.Lin.'i. 619. Borowsk. iii. 7.3. 



t. 48. Spalowsk. ii. t. 27. 

 Grue, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. c. 

 Grus Balearica, Raii, 95. Will. 201. t.48. Bris. v. p. 511. t. 41. female. Id. Svo.i. 



346. Klein, 121. III. Gerin. iv. t. 414, Robert, Ic. pi. 12. 

 Grus Capensis, Petiv. Gaz. t.26. f. 9. 

 L'Oiseau royal, Buf. vii. 317. pi. 16. PI. enl. 265. male. 

 Grue tete de negre, Ferm. Surin. ii. 150 ? 

 Peacock, Kolb. Cap. ii. 245- pi- 7. f. 4, 

 Balearic Crane, Sloan. Jam. 314. Will. Engl. 275. pi. 48. 

 Crowned African Crane, Edw. pi. 192. Voy. to Guinea, 250. pi. 11. 

 Crowned Heron, Gen. Syn, v. p. 34. Gent. Mag. xx. pi. p. 264. 



SIZE of the Common Heron ; length two feet nine inches. The 

 bill two inches and a half long, straight, and of a brownish colour; 



