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with a crest, consisting of four slender, long feathers, two of which 

 are longer than the others; back black; the neck above yellowish; 

 beneath fulvous; the plumes surrounding the neck are filiform, very 

 long, and pendulous; legs flesh-coloured. 



Inhabits Java ; the islanders there call it Blekko-ireng. 



93.-SUMATRAN HERON. 



Ardea melanalopha, Lin. Trans, xiii. 326. — Raffles. 



THIS is about eighteen inches long, with a thicker neck, and 

 shorter than in some Herons, and the bill less elongated; plumage 

 chestnut, mottled with black ; tail and crest black ; belly variegated 

 with white, black, and brown. — Inhabits Sumatra. 



94.— PAINTED HERON. 



Ardea picta, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 326.— Raffles, 



LENGTH sixteen inches, of a dark brown, approaching to 

 black; mottled with fawn-colour and white; legs and bill short, 

 strong, and greenish. 



Inhabits Sumatra ; called Puchong Udang. 



95— AGAMI HERON. 



Ardea Agami, Ind. Orn. ii. 699. Gm. Lin. i. 629. 

 Le Heron Agami, Buf. vii. 382. PL enl. 859. 

 Agami Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 97. 



LENGTH thirty one inches. Bill eight or nine inches long, 



dusky; crown blue bjack ; nape light blue ; from this hang six or 



eight long, narrow feathers, the longest reaching almost to the bottom 



of the neck, and several others shorter ; back, wings, and tail deep 



blue ; neck and under parts of the body rufous ; but the lower half 



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