54 BIRDS. GRALL/E. 35. Tantalus. 



and grey: breaft with fome long feathers hanging over it inclining 

 to rufous : wing-coverts with a rufous tinge : legs yellow. 



158. A.cinerea. Hind-head with a black pendent crest: 

 body cinereous : neck with a black line underneath : 

 breast with a black band. Fern, hind-head smooth, 

 black: back bluish, beneath whitish: breast with 

 oblong black spots. 



Common Heron. Br Zool. t. 61. F. Levin t. 149. M. 



Length 3 feet 2 : extent 5 feet 4 : weight 3 pounds and a half. 

 Bill near 6 inches long, dusky ahove, yellowish heneath : iris 

 yellow , round the eyes a bare greenish skin : front and crown white: 

 neck white on the upper-part, the fore part with a double row of 

 black fpots : back clothed with down, covered with the fcapulars, 

 which are grey and white, and like the feathers on the lower-part 

 of the neck are narrow long and loofe : wings with a white ridge, 

 the coverts bluish-grey, the primary quills and bastard wings black : 

 sides black : breast and belly white; tail bluish-grey: thighs dirty 

 white : legs dirty-green : middle-claw ferrate inwardly. 



Female, head bluish-grey. 



159. A. Gardeni. Above dusky wilh wlvte spots, beneath 

 whitish with longitudinal dusky lines : greater quills 

 edged a?^d tipt with white : tail dusky. 



Gardenian Heron. Linn. Trans, v. p, 276. PI. enlum. 939. 



Length about 20 inches : size of the Rook. 

 Bill dusky, green-yellow beneath : lores greenish : bock without 

 fpots on the lower part : lesser-coverts with yellowish fpots, greater 

 ones with a white fpet at the tip, forming 2 bands on the wings : 

 legs dirty yellow : jniddle-claw ferrate inwardly. 



160. A. Girzttfa. Hind-head crested: body white: bill 

 g^ee^Jsh black: kres and legs olive-green. 



Little Egret. Br. Zool. app. t. 7. Lewin t. 150. Donov. i. 98. 



Length to the end of the legs 32 inches : weight a pound. 

 Bill slender : iris yellow : plumage fplendid white : crest consisting 

 of feveral short and 2 long pendent feathers : feathers of the breast 

 and fcapulars long, loofe, pendent, lacerated, reaching beyond and 

 covering the tail : claws dusky, the middle-one ferrate inwards. 



161. A. alba. Head without crest: body white: bill 

 greenish-yellow: lores green : legs black. 



White Heron. Br. Zool. t. 62. Lewin t. 151. 



Length 53 inches : extent 60 inches : weight 40 ounces. 

 Bill nearly 6 inches long: iris and edges of the eyelids yellow:. 

 middle-claw ferrate on the inner-edge. 



162. A. caspica. Hind-head somewhat crested, black: 

 body g^ey : chin white : neck breast and belly ferru- 

 ginous, the former with three black lines runniug 

 down it. 



African Heron. Lewin t, 152. Walcot.t. 131. 



Length about 3 feet : smaller than the common Heron. 

 Bill 7 inches long, dusky yellow with a blackish point: heading 

 greater part of the neck pale ferruginous : crest of blark long fea- 

 ' thers : feathers of the breast and rump long, loofe, mixed grey 

 and ferruginous : back and wings deep grey : quills and tail black : 

 belly pale grey-ferruginous : legs dull yellow, the fore-part and 

 claws black : middle-claw ferrate on the. inner-edge. 



3d. TANTALUS. Ibis. 



163. T. i^neus. Head and neck black, the feathers 

 fringed with white : orbits while : body glossed and 

 variegated with blackish, blue, green and claret-red.. 



