Birds XLVIL 



Vol. IV. No. £ 



HERONS OF DIFFERENT SORTS, 



Fig. l. 



The Agami Heron. 



{Ar dea Agami.) 



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J. he Agami Heron , on account of its many co- 

 il our' d plumage, belongs to the moft beautiful 

 Sorts of its fpecies, inhabits Cayenne, and is 

 commonly two feet feven inches long. The 

 bach, the back -part of the neck, the wings and 

 the tail are dark blue; the belly, the thighs co- 

 ver' d with feathers and the fore -part of the, neck 

 of a reddifh brown; from the back of the head 

 there hang fix or eight taper nodding feathers 

 of a dark blue colour. Flying bluifh feathers 

 clothe the fides of the neck, and behind the wings 

 long flying light blue feathers .hang down as far 

 as the end of the tail. 



Fig. 2. The black Stork, 



(Ar dea nigra.) 



The Mack Stork, which like the common 

 white Stork lives upon amphibious animals and 

 fifh, inhabits many parts of Europe, and builds 

 in the receffes of the woods , upon high trees. 

 The colour of the head and neck is a fort of 

 dazzling mixture of green, violet colour, and 

 hrown with little white fpots; the wings, the 

 back, and the tail are colpur'd in the fame man- 

 ner, except that there are no white fpots in them. 

 The belly is of a dirty white, the legs red. 



Fig. 3. The common Night Heron, 

 (Ardea Nycticorax.) 



The common night Heron is met with in every 

 part of Germany, but alfo inhabits other Euro- 

 pean countries, as Wvell as Aha and America, 



and lives upon fifh , frogs and other amphibious 

 animals. Tt attains the height of one foot ten 

 inches, and its plumage con lifts of a mixture of 

 white, brown, and blackifh - green feathers. 

 From the back of its head there hang^ three 

 white, long, taper feathers, which are us'rl, par- 

 ticularly in Turkey as an ornament of the head» 

 drefs, and bear a high price. 



Fig. 4. The Cayenne Night Heron > 

 (Ardea Cay erm enfi s.) 



lives in Cayenne, refembles the common night- 

 Heron in fize and manner of living, but is of a. 

 taperer make, and of a darker colour. 



Fig. 5. The Tiger -Bittern, 

 (Ardea tigrina.) 



The plumage of this beautiful Bittern alrnoit 

 refembles a tiger's fkin in colour, which is of 

 a dark yellowifh red, variegated with black fpots 

 and ftripes, and hence it derives the name of 

 Tiger- Bittern. Its height is about two feet and 

 an half, it lives in South - America , chiefly in 

 Cayenne and Surinam , and builds its n eft upon 

 the ground amongft the flags. 



Fig. 6. The zigzag Bittern. 

 (Ardea midulata.) 



This little Bittern is only one foot one inch 

 in height, and lives, like the laft mention'd, in 

 Cayenne, in South - America. Its whole plu- 

 mage is a mixture of yellow, red, and grey, 

 variegated with narrow zigzag black ftrir.es. 

 Its beak is blackifh, and its legs yellow. 



