GREAT EGRET HERON. 



543 



Reddish Egret. Penn, Arct. ZooL 2. 348. — Lath, Gen. St/n. 5. 

 88. 56. 



Louisiane Heron. Wills, Amer. Orn. 8. 63. pi. Ixiv.y. 1.? 



This inhabits Louisiane, and is two feet in 

 length : its beak is yellowish, with the tip dusky : 

 the lore and orbits are green : the head and neck 

 are clothed with loose, long, rusty rufous feathers : 

 the back the same, but the feathers reach con- 

 siderably beyond the tail : the rest of the plumage 

 is dusky grey : the legs are dusky. 



GREAT EGRET HERON. 

 (Ardea Egretta.) 



Ar. occipite cristato, corpore toto albo, pennis scapularibus longis' 



simis lacerisj rostro flavo, loris pedibusque virescentibus. 

 Heron with a crested occiput ; the body all white j the scapulary 



feathers very long and divided , the beak yellow ; the lores 



and legs greenish. 

 Ardea Egretta. Gmel, Syst. Nat. 1. 629. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 2, 



694. 63. 



Ardea alba. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 239.24. young. — Linn, Faun, 

 Suec. 166. young. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 639. young. — Lath. 

 Lnd. Orn. 2. 695. 65. young. 



Ardea Candida. Briss. Orn. 5. 428. 15. young. 



Ardea alba major. Raii. Syn. 99. a. 4. 



La grand Aigrette. Buff. Ois. 7. ^yy.—Buff. PI. Enl. Q25. 



Le Heron blanc. Buff, Ois. 7. 365. young.— Buff, PI, Enl. 886. 

 young. 



Heron Aigrette. Temm. Man. d'Orni, 366. 



