134 HERON. 



brown, mixed with fillimot ; back and rump like the crown, mixed 

 with dull green and rufous; the under parts are white, spotted with 

 fillimot as far as the breast, from thence to the vent ash-colour; lesser 

 wing coverts dull green, with rufous edges; greater and quills black, 

 edged with white; tail greenish black; legs yellow ; claws black. 



Inhabits Chili, and other parts of America, on the banks of 

 rivers, at a distance from the sea. Is called by some Cra-Cra, from 

 the cry, which it makes in flight. The natives call it Jaboutra. It 

 is met with also at Martin ico. 



115— YELLOW-NECKED HERON. 



Ardea flavicollis, Ind.Orn. ii. 701. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 189 ? 

 Yellow-necked Heron, Gen. Si/n. Siip. 239. View of Hindoost. ii. 158. 



SIZE of the Blue Heron; length two feet or more. Bill three 

 inches and a half long, dusky brown ; lore and round the eye red 

 brown ; top of the head full of feathers, and crested behind ; that 

 and the back part of the neck dark purplish brown ; the sides of the 

 head rufous brown ; chin white ; throat and sides of the neck yellow 

 clay-colour, but the middle of the throat, and all the rest of the neck 

 rufous brown, mixed with streaks of white and deeper brown ; under 

 parts, from the breast, rufous brown ; all the upper parts of the body, 

 wings, and tail deep purplish brown ; legs brown ; the wings and 

 tail are even. 



Inhabits India. — Sir John Anstruther. In the drawings of Mr. 

 Middleton I likewise observed this bird, but the parts which are 

 purplish brown in the former, were in the latter black. It is met 

 with in plenty in the Province of Oude, and in other parts, in low 

 watery places, but is not accounted good for food. It is found in 

 Java, and called Tomtomman, or Totalan ; but with some Variety, 

 the quills and tail being deep blue. One, greatly similar, is also seen 

 in New-Holland. 



