HERON. 73 



and sides the same, but on a paler ground ; belly white ; thighs 

 covered with feathers above the joint; legs green before, and yellow 

 behind. 



This bird was met with in Paraguay. 



35— SPOTTED HERON. 



Ardea maculata, Ind. Orn.Sup. p. lxiv. 

 Spotted Heron, Gen. Syn. Sup.'ri. 305. 



THIS appears, at first sight, not unlike the Little Bittern. The 

 bill is dusky green ; under mandible yellow at the base; round the 

 eye bare, and greenish ash-colour ; irides yellow ; general colour of 

 the plumage pale brown above, spotted on the back and wings with 

 white; quills pale ferruginous, with paler ends; under parts of the 

 body dusky white; legs dusky green. 



Inhabits New South Wales : probably of the female sex. 



36.— WATTLED HERON— Pl. cxlviii. 



Ardea carunculata, Ind. Orn. ii. 691. Gm. Lin. i. 643. 

 Wattled Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 82. pl. 78. 



SIZE of a Stork ; length five feet and a half. Bill red, and 

 carunculated for one-third next the base ; rest of the length dusky 

 black ; round the eye bare and red ; irides pale red ; top of the head 

 blue grey; the rest of the head, neck, and breast white, ending on 

 the latter in a point ; under the chin are two appendages, nearly four 

 inches long, hanging like wattles, but covered with white feathers, 

 like the rest of the neck ; back and wings blue grey ; on the back 

 some long narrow feathers, as in many other Herons, hanging over 

 the tail ; quills black, and about even with the tail ; between the 

 shoulders, the breast, belly, and under parts black ; legs dusky 

 blue grey. 



VOL. IX. L 



