HERON. 8.0 



51— LITTLE WHITE HERON. 



Ardea aequinoctialis, Ind. Orn. ii. 696. Lin. i. 240. Gm. Lin. i. 641. 

 Ardea alba minor, Little White Heron, Bartr. Tr. 291. 

 Ardea Carolinensis Candida, Bris. v. 435. Id. 8vo. ii. 324. Klein, 124. 10. 

 Crabier blanc a bee rouge, Buf. vii. 401. 

 Heron blanc moyen, Voy. d'Azara, iv. p. 351. 352. 

 Red-billed Heron, Arct. Zool. ii. Sup. 66. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 25. 

 Little White Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 93. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 345. Cat. Carol, i. pi. 77. 

 Lin. Trans, ix. p. 197. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



LENGTH eighteen inches. Bill two inches and three quarters 

 long, and red ; lore the same ; irides yellow ; plumage wholly white ; 

 the secondaries and prime quills nearly of equal length ; legs and 

 bare part above the joint green. 



Inhabits Carolina in the spring, and probably breeds there, not 

 seen in winter; common at New York ; and I have received one, 

 apparently the same, from Jamaica; but at both these places the bill 

 is black, though in my specimen the lore was brownish, or faded 

 red. I observed too, in some instances, that the ends of the secon- 

 daries were brown. 



In the Museum of the late Colonel Montagu was a specimen 

 of a female, which was killed in Devonshire, the latter end of 

 October 1805. 



A. — Ardea Mexicana Candida, Bris. v. 437. Id. 8vo. ii. 324. 

 Avis Mexicana minima candidissima, Hoitzilaztotl, Raii, 102. 22. 

 Heron blanc du Mexique, Buf. vii. 408. 

 Little White Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 94. Var. B. 



Size of a Pigeon. Bill and legs purple; lore yellow; plumage 

 wholly pure white. 



Inhabits Mexico, where it is called Hoitzilaztotl. 



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