HERON. 109 



Inhabits Louisiana. It seems much allied to the Green Heron, 

 and may perhaps hereafter prove to be a Variety of that bird. Is a 

 summer resident in Georgia, making a nest of sticks in a bush, the 

 eggs round, of a pale green. 



74— INDIAN GREEN HERON. 



SIZE small ; length uncertain, not more than fifteen inches. 

 Bill large, dusky, the base, lore, and round the eyes, dusky green ; 

 top of the head black, the feathers elongated into a crest behind ; in 

 the direction of the under jaw a black streak ; the rest of the head 

 and neck pale ash, or dusky ; vent the same, the feathers pale and 

 pointed ; wing feathers green, with pale edges ; greater quills brown, 

 the margins pale; all beneath the body dusky white; legs dusky 

 pale yellow. 



The female has the bill and lore the same; neck brown, streaked 

 with dusky white ; back brown, the edges of the feathers pale ; 

 wings dusky, with pale margins, and a spot of white at the tips of 

 the feathers ; greater quills plain, but edged with pale yellow ; legs 

 as in the other. 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. It is like the Green Heron, 

 but seems to be a distinct species. Is found at Cawnpore, in April 

 and May, and breeds there : the eggs pale blue. 



75— SGUACCO HERON. 



Ardea comata, Ind. Orn. ii. 687. Gm. Lin. i. 632. It. Poseg. 24. Gerin. iv. t. 418. 



Pall, reise, ii. 715. 31. 



Cancrofagus luteus, Bris. v. 472. Id. 8vo. ii. 335. 

 Sguacco, Rail, 99. Will. 206. Id. Engl. 281. viii. Buf. vii. 391. 



Crabier de Marion, Buf. vii. 393. PL enl. 348. Faun. Helvet. 



Sguacco Heron, Gen. St/n. v. 74. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 26. Lin. Trans, iii. 335. 



Orn. Diet. Supp. 



SIZE of the Blue Heron. Bill livid red, with a brown tip; 

 lore greenish ; irides yellow ; crown of the head much crested ; six 



