HERON. 129 



Inhabits India, in the collection of Lady Clive ; called by the 

 Missionaries the Ominous Heron, as it is supposed to portend disasters. 

 The native Teleuganas call it Pamparai. 



105 .—BLACK-SHOULDERED HERON. 



HEIGHT, when standing, four feet and a half; from the poll to 

 the shoulders two feet ; length of wings eighteen inches. Bill eleven 

 inches, black; beneath yellow; chin and throat white; head feathers 

 elongated at the nape ; the colour of that, the neck, and back, deep 

 brown, or sooty; the crown and crested part the darkest; shoulders 

 almost black ; sides of the neck and breast dirty brown, with grey, 

 longitudinal hatches, but the ground colour of the breast is bluish 

 grey, growing paler towards the vent, which is also streaked with 

 pale, or whitish ; under part of the tail dun-grey ; lower part of the 

 back and rump brown, changing on the latter to the blue grey 

 colour of a Pigeon, and each feather margined with black ; legs 

 brown ; the thighs bare far above the joint ; from that to the toes 

 seven inches; middle toe nearly five inches, hind one two inches and 

 a half. — Inhabits New South Wales. 



106.— LEPID HERON. 



Ardea lepida, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 190. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH fifteen inehes; plumage brownish Isabella colour, 

 paler on the under parts; crown crested, and black ; quills and tail 

 the same ; back of the neck and cheeks rufous chestnut; the feathers 

 hanging over the breast full, margined with yellowish. 



Inhabits Java. 



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