MEXICAN HERON. 



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base : between the beak and the eye, and the orbits, 

 naked, and grey : the head and neck are streaked 

 with brown and white : the whole of the feathers 

 are long, narrow, and loose : the back is brown : 

 the wings, the under parts of the body, and the tail, 

 are white : the legs yellow. Inhabits the Malacca 

 isles, and other parts of India. 



MEXICAN HERON. 



(Ardea spadicea.) 



Ar. castaneo-purpurea, capite remigibusque spadiceis, vertice 

 nigra. 



Chesnut-purple Heron, with the head and quills chesnut j the 

 crown black. 



Ardea spadicea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 641. — Lath. Ind. 0rn,2, 

 699. 



Ardea Mexicana purpurascens. Briss. Orn. 5. 422. 13. 

 Le Crabier pourpre. Buff.Ois. y . A02. 

 Mexican Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. QQ. 67. 



This is a small species, and is perhaps only the 

 young of some other : it is twelve inches in length : 

 the crown of the head is black, the rest of the 

 head is pale chesnut : the prevailing colour of the 

 plumage is of a purplish chesnut, the under parts 

 being palest : the quills and tail are chesnut. It 

 inhabits Mexico. 



