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CALEDONIAN NIGHTHERON. 

 (Nycticorax Caledonicus.) 



^Y.Jiisco-Jernigineus, suhUis superciliisque alhis, vertice nigro, 

 crista occipitis tripenni alba. 



Rusty brown Nightheron, with the under parts and the eye- 

 brows white; the crown black; the occiput with a white 

 crest, composed of three feathers. 



Ardea Caledonica. Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 626. — Lath, Ind, Orn, 

 2. 679. 15. 



Caledonian Night Heron. Lath, Lid, Orn, 5. 55. 15. — Lath, Syn, 

 Sup, II, 299. 5. 



This bird is very similar to the common Night- 

 heron when in its full plumage : it is in length 

 nearly two feet: its beak is black: the space 

 between the beak and eye is naked, and green : 

 the irides are yellow : the crown of the head is 

 black: the eyebrows, and streak on the upper 

 parts of the sides of the head, are white : from the 

 nape arises three long white feathers : the prevail- 

 ing colour of the plumage is ferruginous, inclining 

 to brown ; the neck being palest, and having its 

 feathers very loose on the fore-part : the breast, 

 the belly, and the under parts of the body, are 

 white : the legs are yellov/ : the claws are dusky. 

 It inhabits New Caledonia. 



