545 



LITTLE EGRET HERON. 



may be a distinct species. It frequents marshy 

 places, and shelters itself among reeds; it lays 

 from four to six greenish eggs. 



LITTLE EGRET HERON. 



(Ardea Garzetta,) 



Ar. occipite cristate, corpore toto albo, pennis dorsi supremo 

 elongatis sericeis, rostro nigro, loris pedihusque mrescentibus . 



Heron with the occiput crested j the whole body white; the 

 feathers of the upper part of the back elongated and silky j 

 the beak black j the lores and legs greenish. 



Ardea Garzetta. Linn, Syst, Nat. 1. 973. 13.— Gwe/. Syst. Nat. 



1. 628. — Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 694. 64. 



Ardea nivea. Gtnel. Syst. Nat. 1. 633. — Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 

 696. 67. 



Ardea aequinoctialis. ^. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 697. 70. young. 



Egretta. Briss. Orn. 5. 431. 16. 



Ardea Candida minor. Briss. Orn. 5. 438. 20. young. 



Garzetta. Raii. Syn.p.QQ. 5. — Will. Ang. p. 280. 



Ardea alba tertia Aldrovandi. Raii. Syn, p. 99. 6. young. 



L*Aigrette. Buff. Ois. 7. 372. pL 20.— Buff. PL Enl. QOl. 



La Garzette blanche. Buff. Ois. 7* 371. young. 



Heron Garzette. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 368. 



Snowy Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. Q2, 61. — Wills. Amer. Orn, 



7. 120. ^Z.lxii./. 4. 

 Little Egret. Penn, Brit, Zool. App. pi. 7. — Penn. Arct. ZooL 



2. 347. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. QO. 5g. — Wale, Syn, 2. pi. 30. — 

 Letuin, Brit, Birds, 4. pi. 149. — Don. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 98.— 

 Betv, Brit, Birds. 2. 45,^Mont. Orn, Diet, I, 



V. XI. p. II. 36 



