60 HERON. 



rufous ones on the wing coverts; quills rufous, with pale ends, 

 reaching to the end of the tail ; legs blackish. This was probably 

 a young bird. 



A. — Caledonian Night Heron, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 299. 



This slight Variety has the bill and legs brown ; general colour 

 of the plumage chestnut brown, paler on the fore part of the neck J 

 belly white; on the breast, and each side of the back, towards the 

 tail, the plumage is very soft and downy, appearing of a silky texture, 

 and to the touch full as delicate as that of Swan's skin, of which 

 powder puffs are made. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and seems not greatly to differ from the 

 Caledonian one ; and perhaps it may be doubted, whether this last 

 is not a Variety of the Common Night Heron, which has been met 

 with in almost every part of the globe yet known, not excepting 

 our own kingdom. We suspect this to be the Hog Bird of Azara, 

 called by the Guaranis Tayazu guira, and found about Paraguay, in 

 South America, in small flocks, in the marshes, and other inundated 

 places; for in description it comes so near to the Caledonian, as 

 to make one suppose it to be the same ; it is said to take the name 

 of Hog Bird, from its making a grunting, somewhat like that 

 animal ; and the lower classes think, that if it flies over the houses, it 

 presages death. 



21— CHESTNUT HERON. 



Ardea badia, Ind. Orn. ii. 686. Gin. Lin. i. 644. Tern. Man. d'Orre. 376. Id.Ed.W. 



p. 579. 

 Cancrofagus castaneus, Bris.v. 468. 7d.8vo.ii. 334. 

 Crabier roux, Buf. vii. 390. 



Der Castanien braune Reiher, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. s. 34. 

 Chestnut Heron, Gen. Syn. v. p. 73. 



SIZE of a Crow. Bill four inches long, brown ; irides pale 

 yellow; head and body above chestnut; beneath dirty white, with 



