84 HERON. 



These birds breed in several of the cedar swamps, in the lower part 

 of New Jersey ; making their nests in trees, and like Herons, in 

 society. The nest composed of small twigs, roughly constructed, 

 and the eggs three or four, of a pale blue; their food chiefly frogs, 

 lizards, fishes, and insects ; and sometimes mice and moles : if taken 

 young they are easily domesticated. 



45.— GREAT WHITE HERON. 



Ardea alba, Ind. Orn. ii. 695. Lin.'i. 239. Faun. suec. No. 166. Gm. Lin.'i. 639. 



Scop. i. No. 126. Kramer, 346. 2. Klein, 122. 2. Gesn. Av. t. p. 189. It. 



Poseg. p. 25. Tern. Man. 367. Id. Ed. ii. 573. 

 Ardea Candida, Bris. v. 428. Id. 8vo. ii. 322. Faun. Helvet. 

 Ardea alba major, Raii, 99. A. 4. Will. 205. t. 49. Gerin. iv. t. 425. 

 Ardea immacnlata, Bartr. Tr. 291. 

 Ardea Egrettoides, Gmel. reise, ii. 193. t. 35. 

 Le Heron blanc, Buf. vii. 365. PL enl. 886. 

 Der grosse weisse Reiher, Bechst. Dents, iii. s. 23. 

 Garza bianca, Cett. Uc. Sard. 276. 



Great White Gaulding, Brown, Jam. 478. Sloan. Jam. 314. pi. 266. Raii, 189. 1. 

 Great White Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 91. Br. Zool.'n. No. 175. pi. 62. Id.fol. 117. 



Id. Ed. 1S12. ii. p. 19. pi. 5. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 234. Id. Sup. p. 66. Will. 



Engl. 279. pi. 49. Lewin, iv. pi. 150. Om. Diet. $ Supp. 



SIZE of the last. Bill, lore, and irides, the same; the plumage 

 also, like that, of a snowy whiteness throughout, but differs in not 

 having the fine, long, pendent feathers from the back as in the other. 

 Birds of this kind are found more or less in many parts of Europe, 

 but not far to the north ; rarely seen in Sweden.* In the Russian 

 dominions, about the Caspian and Black Seas, the Lakes of Great 

 Tartary, the River Irtish, and sometimes as high as lat. 53. f Said 

 to have been seen now and then in England, J but except the single 

 instance, of one being shot, some years since, in Cumberland, we 

 know not of its being found in this kingdom. It is a species pro- 



* Arct. Zool. t Id. t Willughby. 



