56 HERON. 



**** HERONS.— THE MIDDLE CLAW SERRATED WITHIN, 



19.— NIGHT HERON. 



Ardea Nycticorax, Ind. Orn. ii. G78. Lin. i. 235. Gm. Lin. i. 624. Scop. i. No. 



116. Kramer, 347. Sepp, t. p. 131. Bris. v. 493. t. 39. Id. 8vo. ii. 341. .Ran, 



99. 3. Will. 204. t. 49. .Faun. arag. 76. Borowsk. iii. 74. .Faun. #<?/«. Dec. 



raw. ii. 77. Gerin. iv. t. 422. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 578. Lin. Trans, xiii. 189. 

 Ardea varia, Klein, 123. V. 7a". Stem. 29. t. 31. f. 1—4. Id. Ov. 34. t. 18. f. 2. 

 Ardea Kwaka, N. C. Petr. xv. 452. t. 14. 



Le Bihoreau, Buf. vii. 435. pi. 12. PI. enl. 758. Pernet. Voy. ii. p. 26. 

 Der Nachtreiher, Bechst. Deuts. iii. s. 37. t. 111. Id. Ed. ii. V. iv. p. 54. Naturf. 



xiii. 206. Id. xv. 161. 

 Nitticorace, Celt. Uc. Sard. 273. 

 Night Heron, Night Raven, Gen. Syn. v. 52. Id. Sup. 234. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 23. 



Arct. Zool. ii. No. 356. Will. Engl. 279. pi. 49. Albin, ii. pi. 67. Ray's Trav. 



p. 38. Lewin, pi. 145. Walcot, ii. pi. 126. Orn. Diet. 6f Supp. Amer. Orn. 



vii. 97. pi. 61. f. 2. 3. 



The YOUNG BIRD. 



Ardea grisea, Lin. i. 239. Gm. Lin. i. 625. Bris. v. 412. t. 36. f. 1. Id, 8vo. ii. 317. 



Faun. Helv. Dec. russ. ii. 146. Sepp, t. p. 151. 

 Bihoreau, la femelle, PI. enl. 759. 

 Der graue Reiher, Bechst. Deuts. iii. s. 38. 

 Female Night Heron, Gen. Syn. v. p. 53. Lewin, pi. 146. Id. t. xxv. 2.— the egg. 



Beivick, ii. pi. in p. 43. Amer. Orn. vii. pi. 61. f. 3. — young bird. 



THIS elegant species is in length twenty inches; breadth forty. 

 Bill stout, three inches and three quarters long, black, with the 

 base yellowish ; irides orange ; lore and round the eye green ; crown 

 of the head greenish black, reaching a little way on the back of the 

 neck, and there ending in a point ; from the hindhead spring three 

 very narrow feathers, nearly six inches in length, of a pure white, 



