COROMANDEL HERON. 



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varied with rufous and white : quills black : rump, 

 breast, and belly, varied with ferruginous, whitish, 

 cinereous, and brown : thighs with rufous and 

 cinereous white : the wings when closed reach a 

 trifle beyond the tail : legs green." The above is 

 Latham's description of this bird, to which is also 

 attached the following: This species is found 

 about the river Don, in the summer only, as it is 

 migratory, coming from the Black Sea, and depart- 

 ing to it again in autumn. Feeds on fish and 

 insects. Frequently met with along with the last 

 species."* 



This bird appears to be greatly allied to the 

 Squacco, if it be not an intermediate state of some 

 of the varieties of that species. 



COROMANDEL HERON. 



( Ardea Coromandelensis.) 



Ar. alba, capite superiore cervice pedore dorsoqiie rufescentibws. 

 White Heron, with the upper part of the head, the top of tha 



neck, the breast, and the back, rufescent. 

 Ardea comata, /3. Lath, Ind, Orn. 2. 687. 39. 

 Crabier de Coromandel. Buf. Ois. 7. 393.— Buf, PL Enl.QX2. 

 Squacco Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 75. 39. a. 



* Ardea ralloides, the Squacco Heron i 

 V. XI. P. II. 38 



