YELLOW-CROWNED HERON. 



57d 



of the head deep green ; the hind head adorned 

 with a crest of the same hue : the rest of the head 

 and the neck are rufons : the fore-part of the latter 

 white, varied with elongated rufous spots : the 

 back grey, glossed with purple, and its feathers 

 long and narrow : the wing-coverts dull green, 

 edged with fulvous : the quills are blackish, and 

 some of them are tipped with white : the belly is 

 rufous-brown : the tail is blackish green : the legs 

 yellow : the claws black. 



YELLOW-CROWNED HERONe 

 (Ardea violacea.) 



Ar. occipiie luteo crisia alba, corpore alba nigroque striafo subtus 



ca'rulescente, pedibus luteis. 

 Heron with aluteous occiput and white crest 5 the body striped 



with white and black ; beneath bluish ; the feet yellow. 

 Ardea violacea. Linn. Syst.Nat. I. 238. 16. — Gmel. Syst. NaL 



1. 631.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 69O. 50. 

 Ardea cserulea nigra. Raii. Si/n. p. 18g. 3- 

 Cancrofagus Bahamensis. Briss. Orn. 5. 481. 41. 

 Le Crabier gris-de-fer. Buff. Ois. 7. 399. 

 Crested Bittern. Catesb. Carol. 1. pi. 79. 



Yellow-crowned Heron. Penn. Arct. Zool.2.352.'-^Lnth. Gen. 

 Syn. 5. 80. 46.~Wills. Amer. Orn. 8. 2Q. pi. Ixv.f. I. 



Rather a small species, being only fifteen inches 

 and a half in length : the beak about three inches 

 long, and black : the irides are red : the orbits 



