122 HERON. 



streaked brown and white ; all the feathers long, narrow, and loose \ 

 back brown ; wings, under parts of the body, and tail, white ; legs 

 yellow. 



Inhabits Malacca; found also on the Coast of Coromandel. In 

 some drawings from the latter the coverts and outer edge of the 

 wing are white; back very dark chocolate ; some of the inner coverts 

 mixed chocolate and white ; legs dull pale green. It is found also 

 in Java, and called Blekko, but the lea;s are lead-colour. 



91.— SENEGAL HERON. 



Ardea Senegalensis, hid. Orn. i. 684. Gin. Lin. i. 645. 

 Le petit Butor dii Senegal, Bitf. vii. 426. 

 Petit Heron roux du Senegal, PL enl. 315. 

 Senegal Bittern, Gen. Syn. v. 67. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill rufous brown, yellow beneath ; 

 head above, neck, and back, rufous; fore part of the neck the same, 

 though very pale, and each feather marked with a black streak 

 down the shaft ; but those which hang loose over the breast are 

 plain, and darker than the rest ; down the middle of the wing, from 

 the shoulder, reddish ; the rest of the wing, without and within, 

 white ; but some of the inner quills are the same colour as the back ; 

 the under parts of the body and tail white ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Senegal. One, apparently the same, in Mr. Brogden's 

 collection, was eighteen inches in length. The plumage in this 

 differed but very little, and the bill and legs were dusky black.— 

 This and the last seem to be much allied. 



92 —SPECIOUS HERON. 



Ardea Speciosa, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 189. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH eighteen inches. Bill whitish at the base, and black 

 at the point ; general colour of the plumage white ; head furnished 



