108 HERON. 



Inhabits Jamaica, Carolina, and other parts of North America : 

 is probably a female of the Green Heron, having been sent to me, 

 as such from Jamaica, and North America. 



Mr. Abbot observes, that when in adult plumage, there is no 

 great difference between the sexes ; that on their arrival in Georgia 

 in the spring, the young ones of the second year are only beginning 

 to moult, and it is some time after that before they acquire the full 

 adult plumage ; but not only the female, but the young males are 

 spotted more or less in proportion, as they advance towards maturity. 



C. — Size of the others. Bill brown, with a dusky tip; general 

 colour of all the upper parts fine green ; the head furnished with a 

 long crest ; wing coverts white, marked with large green spots ; 

 beneath from chin to vent rufous white; legs green. 



This was in the museum of the late Sir A. Lever, but from 

 whence it came uncertain. 



73 — LOUISIANE HERON. 



Ardea Ludoviciana, Ind. Orn. ii. 690. Gm. Lin. i. 630. 

 Crabier roux a tete et queue vertes, Bit/, vii. 407. 

 Crabier de la Louisiane, PI. enl. 909. 

 Louisiane Heron, Gen. St/n. v. 81. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 350. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill dusky; lore pale yellow; top 

 of the head deep green, lengthening into a crest at the nape; the 

 rest of the head and neck rufous ; fore part of it white, marked with 

 long rufous spots; back cinereous, tinged with purple, and the 

 feathers long and narrow ; belly rufous brown ; wing coverts dull 

 green, the edges fulvous ; quills blackish, many of them tipped with 

 white ; tail blackish green ; legs yellow, claws black. 



