66 HERON. 



which haunt morasses. It is scarce, and very shy : as I learn from 

 the friend who sent it to me ; and is larger than the Night Heron, 

 but seems to have great affinity with it. It is said to have been met 

 with in Paraguay. 



27— GARDENIAN NIGHT HERON. 



Ardea Gardeni, Ind.Orn.W. 685. Gm. Lin.\. 645. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 376. 

 Botaurus naevius, Brig. v. 462. Id. 8vo. ii. 332. Frisch, ii. t. 9. 

 Butor tachete, ou Pouacre, Buf. vii. 427. PI. enl. 939. 

 Der geflechte Reiher, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 35. 

 Spotted Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 71. 



Gardenian Heron, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 355. Br. Zoo/. Ed. 1812. V. ii. p. 27. pi. 7. 

 Lin. Trans, v. p. 276. Om. Diet. Supp. 



LENGTH twenty-two inches. Bill strong, dusky ; head, neck, 

 breast, and belly, whitish, elegantly streaked downwards with short, 

 fine lines of black ; crown and hind part darkest ; upper part of the 

 back streaked with white, the lower dusky and plain ; the whole 

 wing of the same colour ; lesser coverts marked with small yellowish 

 spots ; the greater with a small spot of white on each feather, forming 

 two rows across the wings; primaries edged with dull white, the 

 ends tipped with the same; tail dusky; legs deep dirty yellow. 



The late Mr. Pennant received a specimen, from which the above 

 description was taken, sent by Dr. Garden, of South Carolina, where 

 it frequents ponds and rivers, in the interior of the country, remote 

 from the sea ; seen also about Savannah, in Georgia, and there 

 called Indian Pullet ; frequently found in the rice fields. 



In the collection of Colonel Montagu was a bird, with so many 

 characters of the above, as to incline one to think it the same : the 

 length twenty-three inches. Bill two inches and a half; crown of 

 the head chocolate brown, shaded to a dull yellow at the nape, 

 w\iere the feathers are much elongated ; chin and throat nearly 

 white ; on each side, behind the ears, a black mark ; the feathers on 

 the neck long, with fibrous webs like the Common Bittern ; those in 



