LITTLE WHITS HERON. 

 {Ardea ^quinoctialis.) 



Ar. alba, remigihus dunhus pi'imis margine exteriore J'uscis, 



pileo collogue in/eriore luteis. 

 "White Heron, with the outer edge of the two first quills 



brownish ; the top of the head and the lower part of the 



neck yellowish. 



Ardea ^quinoctialis. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 240. 25. — Gmel. Si/sL 

 Nat, 1. 641. — Laih. Ind, Orn, 2. 6g6. 70. — Leach. Cat, Brit. 

 Mus, p. 33. 



Ardea carolinensis Candida. Briss, Orri. 5, 435. 18. 



Le Crabier blanc a bee rouge. B?(^. Ois. 7. 401. 



Red-billed Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool. Sup. 2. 6Q. 



Little white Heron. Lath. Gen. Sj/n. 5. 93. 63. — Penn. Arct, 



Zool. 2. 345. — Catesb. Carol. 72.— Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. 



—-Mont. Linn. Trans, ix. 197* 



This is twenty inches in length: the beak is 

 two inches long, and of an orange-colour : the 

 lores and orbits the same : irides pale yellow : the 

 entire plumage is snowy white, except the crown 

 of the head, and the upper part of tlie neck before, 

 which are buff : the legs greenish. The skin of 

 this bird is very dark coloured ; so much so, as to 

 give a dirty cast to the white plumage on the 

 cheeks and sides of the neck. The feathers on the 

 back of the head are very slightly elongated, as 

 they likewise are on the lower part of the neck 

 before. 



A single specimen of this bird has been taken in 



