132 HERON. 



back spring many narrow, pale, silky, loose-webbed, ferruginous 

 feathers, which hang over the tail, and a little beyond it; legs 

 yellow brown. 



One supposed to be a female, is twenty-one inches, and the bill 

 half an inch shorter; upper mandible brown, the lower yellow; 

 round the eye yellow ; head and neck ferruginous, streaked and 

 mixed with white before; chin white; back and wings deep blue 

 ash, with a mixture of ferruginous on the wing coverts; the rest of 

 the wings and tail deep blue ash ; all beneath from the breast to 

 vent white ; but the loose feathers hanging over the breast are pale 

 ash ; legs brown, middle toe serrated. 



I found specimens of these in the collection of the late Mr. 

 Thompson, of Little Saint Martin's Lane, supposed to have been 

 brought from New-Holland. 



Ill —YELLOW-WINGED HERON. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill two inches and a half long ; 

 top of the under mandible dusky, the rest of the bill pale; round 

 the eye bare, and pale; irides red; all the upper parts of the head, 

 neck, and back, are dusky black ; the rest of the neck and breast 

 yellow dun-colour, with four or five black marks down the middle ; 

 chin, belly, thighs, and vent, white; wings dun-yellow, with a rufous 

 patch on the lesser coverts, and these marked with black spots as in 

 the last; the parts, too, adjoining to the bend of the wing, are spotted ; 

 quills black; legs shorter, and stouter than in the last species, dull 

 yellow, marked on the shins before with bluish ash. 



Inhabits New-Holland. Native name Go-ning-nah. 



