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REDDISH EGRET HERON. 



fishes and their fry, frogs, and field mice, as well 

 as all sorts of insects, snails, and worms. They 

 build in large societies in the same place, and when 

 they fly their neck is contracted and folded over 

 their back, and their legs are extended : they 

 migrate in flocks periodically : both sexes resemble 

 each other, but the young are very dissimilar, and 

 are very difficult to arrange correctly in conse- 

 quence. 



A. TiBiJE parte inferiore nudce, 

 A. Tibice naked on the lower part. 



a. Tarsi longi ; femora supra genua plumis maxime denudatis ; 



DiGiTi longissimi. 

 a. Tarsi long j the lower part of the thighs considerably devoid 



of feathers ; the toes very long. 



REDDISH EGRET HERON. 



(Ardea rufescens.) 



Ar. cinereo nigricans^ capite collo dorsoque postico fulvo-rujisf 



pennis dorsalibus posticis elongatis rufis, rostro Jiavo, apicepe^ 



dibusque nigricantibus. 

 Dusky grey Heron, w^ith head, neck, and back behind, fulvous 



red; the dorsal feathers elongated and rufous 3 the beak 



yellow, its tip and the feet dusky. 

 Ardea rufescens. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 628. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 



694.61. 



L' Aigrette rousse. Buff. Ois. 7. ZJS.^Buff. PI. Enl. 902. 



