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89— AFRICAN HERON. 



Ardea Caspica, hid. Orn. ii. 698. Gmel. reise, ii. 195. 1. 14. 

 African Heron, Gen. Syn. Sup. 237. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 28. 



LENGTH almost three feet. Bill seven inches long, dusky 

 yellow, with the end dusky ; head, and great part of the neck pale 

 ferruginous; chin and throat white; top of the head black, crested, 

 the feathers near three inches long; on the back part of the neck a 

 stripe of black, reaching two-thirds of the way down ; on each side, 

 from behind the eye, another, continuing to the breast ; on the lower 

 part before, the feathers are long, narrow, and loose, as in many 

 others of the Genus ; the colour of them, and the lower part of the 

 neck deep ash ; breast ferruginous chestnut ; back very deep ash ; 

 quills and tail black ; the loose feathers hanging over the rump like 

 those of the neck, mixed with ferruginous ; belly pale ferruginous 

 ash ; legs dull yellow ; the fore part of them, toes, and claws black. 



Inhabits Africa and Asia ; also has been once killed in Ashdown 

 Park, near Lambourn, Berks, belonging to Lord Craven : it is 

 probably a young bird of the Crested purple Species. Col. Montagu 

 has also received one from Norfolk, killed in the year 1811 or 1812; 

 this, however, differs a little in the markings, probably arising from 

 age or sex. 



90— MALACCA HERON. 



Ardea Malaccensis, hid. Om. ii. G89. Gm. Lin. i. 643. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 189. 

 Crabier blanc et brun de Malac, Buf. vii. 394. PI. ent. 911. 

 Malacca Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 78. 



LENGTH nineteen inches. Bill dusky, sides near the base 

 yellow ; lore and beyond the eye bare and grey ; head and neck 



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