BROWN HERON. 



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Ardea rubiginosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 632. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 

 2. 603. 58. 



Rusty-crowned Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 358. — Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. 5. 87. 53. 



The Rusty-crowned Heron is the size of the 

 Common Bittern : its beak is seven inches long, 

 slender, and yellow : irides yellow : head slightly 

 crested : the crest and back part of the neck deep 

 rust-colour : the forehead is dusky : the throat is 

 white : the fore-part of the neck with four black 

 streaks : the feathers of the breast long and loose, 

 with a dark line passing upwards towards the back 

 of the neck : the back and the wing-coverts are 

 deep ferruginous, varied with a few black spots : 

 the quills are dusky : the breast and belly are dirty 

 white, striped with black: the tail short, lead- 

 coloured; the legs are dirty yellow. Inhabits 

 North America. 



BROWN HERON, 

 (Ardea fusca.) 



Ar. crista, capitis nigricante, corpore Jusco-nigricante subtus alhog 



pectore maculis Juscis elongatis. 

 Heron with the crest on the head dusky j the body dusky brown 



beneath white j the breast with elongated brown spots. 

 Ardea fusca. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 700. S3, 



