64 HERON. 



a point; the rest of the neck, breast, and beneath, pale blue grey, the 

 two last paler ; the back and wing coverts have long narrow feathers, 

 of a sooty black, with narrow greenish edges, appearing as alternate 

 blackish and whitish streaks, but the beginning of the back is plain 

 dull ash ; quills and tail pale bluish ash ; legs dull red. 



In the collection of General Davies, and in that of Mr. Bullock 

 were specimens of this bird, said to have been brought from New- 

 Holland. 



25— YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON. 



Ardea violacea, Ind. Orn. ii. 690. Lin. i. 238. Gm. Lin. i. G34. Amer. Ornith. pi. 



65. f. 1. 

 Ardea stellaris cristata Americana, Klein, Av. 124. ix. 

 Cancrofagus Bahamensis, Bris. v. 481. Id. 8vo. ii. 337. 

 Ardea cwruleo-nigra, JRaii, 189. Sloan. Jam. ii. 314. pi. 264. f. 5. 

 Ardea violacea, Crested Blue Bittern, Bartr. Trav. 291? 

 Le Crabier gris-de-fer, Buf. vii. 399. 

 Rother Reyger, Naturf. xiii. 208. 

 Grey-crested Gaulding, Broicn, Jam. 478. 

 Crested Bittern, Cates. Car. i. pi. 79. 

 Yellow-crowned Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 80. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 352. 



LENGTH fifteen inches and a half ; weight half a pound. Bill 

 nearly two inches and three quarters long, black ; irides red ; the 

 bare skin round them green ; crown of the head yellow,* ending in 

 a crest, lengthening into four or five white feathers, the longest nearly 

 six inches; the rest of the head blue black ; from the corners of the 

 mouth, on each side, a white streak, passing to the hindhead ; back 

 streaked black and white ; and from the lower part are long narrow 

 feathers, which hangover the tail, as in many of the Genus; under 

 parts from chin to vent dusky blue ; quills bluish brown ; tail dull 

 blue; legs yellow, claws dusky. 

 Male and female much alike. 



* In Amer. Ornith. pure white. 



