MINUTE HERON. .587 



Ardea Philippensis. G77iel. Sysi. Nat. 1. 644. — Lath. Tnd. Om, 

 2. 686. 35. 



Cancrofagus Philippensis. Briss. Orn. 5. 4/4. 38. pi. 37. f. 2. 

 Le petit Crabier. Biif. Ois. 7. 395.— Buf. PI. Enl. 898. 

 Philippine Heron. Lath, Gen. S^n. 5.72. 35, 



The Philippine Heron is only eleven inches in 

 length : its beak is greenish yellow ; between this 

 and the eye naked, and green : the top of the 

 head and all the upper parts of the neck are rufous 

 brown ; the former most inclined to brown : the 

 back is crossed with transverse rufous and brown 

 lines : the wings are black, with rufous white : 

 the quills and tail are black : the fore-part of the 

 neck dirty rufous white : the belly, the thighs, and 

 the vent, are white : the legs are yellow. Inhabits 

 the Philippine islands. 



MINUTE HERON. 

 (Ardea exilis.) 



Ar. rufo-castaneus, coJlo riifo, nntice abdomineqne alho, lunula 



pectorali remigibiis rectricibusque nigris. 

 Red-chesnut Heron, with the neck rufous ; the fore-part and 



abdomen white j a pectoral lunule, the quills and tail-feathers 



black. 



Ardea exilis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 645. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 683. 29. 



Least Bittern. Wills, Amer, Orn. 8. 37, pL Ixv. / 4. 

 Minute Bittern. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5. 66. 28. 



