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COeOI HERON^ 

 (Ardea Cocoi.) 



Ar. occipite cristd dependente dorsoque cinereis, collo suhtus nigro 



maculntoy capitis lateribus nigris. 

 Heron with a depending occipital crest, which, with the back, is 



cinereous ; the neck beneath spotted with black ; the sides of 



the head black. 



Ardea Cocoi. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 699. 80. — Linn. Syst» Nat. 1. 



237. 14.— Gmel. Si/st, Nat. 1. 629. — Raii. Si/n. ]00. 15. 

 Ardea Cayanensis cristata. Briss. Orn. 5. 400. 3. 

 Le Soco. Bvf. Ois. 7. 739. 

 Cecoi Heron. Lath. Gen, Syn. 5. 98. 71. 



The Cocoi Heron is a large species, measuring 

 upwards of three feet in length : its beak is greenish 

 yellow : irides golden-orange : the top of the head 

 ash-coloured ; its sides black : the occipital feathers 

 much elongated, the two middle ones being nearly 

 six inches in length ; they are all of a fine cinereous 

 colour, and are very narrow : space between the 

 beak and the eye naked, and of a cinereous hue : 

 the cheeks, the throat, and the neck, are white : 

 the fore-part of the neck is speckled with a double 

 row of elongated dusky spots : the feathers of the 

 base of the neck, and those of the scapulars, (which 

 latter hang over the back,) are very long : the rest 

 of the plumage is of a pale cinereous : the legs are 

 ash-colour. It is a native of Brazil and Cayenne. 



