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RED-SHOULDERED HERON. 

 (Ardea Hiulsonias.) 



Ar. mrtice cristato nigroy corpora Juscescente subtus albido, collo 

 suhtus nigro-rufescente maculato, pedibusflavis. 



Heron with the crown with a black crest ; the body brownish j 

 beneath whitish ; the neck beneath spotted with dusky red j 

 the feet yellow. 



Ardea Hudsonias. Linn. Syst, Nat. 1. 238. 18. — Gmel. Sijst> 



Nat. 1. 632. — Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 693. 57. 

 Ardea freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 5. 407. 7- 

 Heron de la bale de Hudson. BuJ^. Ois. 7. 386. 

 Ash-coloured Heron. Edw. Birds. pL 135. 

 Red-shouldered Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 342. — Lath. Gen, 



Syn, 5. 86. 52. 



This species, which is said by Pennant to be 

 the female of the Great Heron, is three feet three 

 inches in length: its beak is five inches and a 

 half long ; the upper mandible is black, the under 

 orange : the crown of the head black, and crested ; 

 the longest feathers upwards of four inches in 

 length : sides and lower part of the head white : 

 between the beak and eye destitute of feathers, 

 and of a greenish yellow colour: the back and 

 upper part of the body grey-brown : the wing- 

 coverts palest : the inner edge of the wing reddish : 

 the neck is clothed with long slender feathers, 

 marked with dusky bars on the hind part, and in 

 front with broad white dashes down the centre of 

 each feather : the breast white, mottled with large 



