WHITE-FRONTED HERON. 



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small white patch : the chin and vent nearly white: 

 the middle of the fore-part of the neck streaked 

 with brown : the tail bright rusty chesnut : the 

 legs yellow. Inhabits China and India. 



WHITE-FRONTED HERON. 

 (Ardea Novae-HoUandise.) 



Ar. subcristata, plumbeo-cinerea subtus rufo-ferruginea^ fronte, 



genis, gula, jugulofjue albis. 

 Slightly crested Heron, plumbeous grey j beneath rusty red ; 



with the forehead, cheeks, throat, and jugulum, white. 

 Ardea Novee-HoUandiae. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 701. 88. 

 White-fronted Heron. Phil. Bot, Bay, pi. in p. l63. — Lath, 



Syn, Sup. //. 304. 18. 



Described as below by Latham, in the second 

 Supplement to his Synopsis. " This is about 

 half the size of the Common Heron, being twenty- 

 eight inches in length : the beak is four inches 

 long, and black ; the base of the under man- 

 dible yellowish : lore and orbits naked, and of 

 a greenish colour : the body on the upper parts is 

 bluish ash -colour : the crown of the head black, 

 and the feathers elongated : the forehead, cheeks, 

 chin, and fore-part of the neck, as far as the middle, 

 white : quills and tail bluish black : the feathers 

 of the breast are elongated, and hang down in a 

 V. xr. p. II. 37 



