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JAMAICA NIGIITHERON. 

 (Nycticorax Jamaicensis.) 



Ny. subcristatus JuscuSy collo ahdomineque Jusco alboque striatis, 



tectricibus alarum apice macula triangulari alba. 

 Slightly crested brown Nightheron, with the neck and abdomen 



striated with fuscous and white ; the tip of the wing-coverts 



with a triangular white spot. 

 Ardea Jamaicensis. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 625. — Lath, Ind, Orn, 



2. 679- 14. 



Jamaica Night Heron. Lath. Gen, Syn, 5. 54. 14. 



Latham has described this curious bird from a 

 specimen in his own collection, in the following 

 manner : " Length one foot eleven inches : beak 

 four inches long, and dusky: the upper man- 

 dible bends a trifle downwards at the point ; the 

 colour dusky ; the ridge of the upper part blackish : 

 the irides pale straw-colour : between the eye, and 

 round it, bare, and greenish : the head is some^ 

 what crested ; the crown dark brown ; each feather 

 is streaked down the middle with ferruginous : 

 neck the same, but the colours duller and paler : 

 chin and throat white : neck-feathers pretty loose : 

 the upper part of the back darker than the rest : 

 the rest of the back and scapulars yellowish brown ; 

 some of the last tipped with white : wing-coverts 

 like the back, but the lower order of them much 

 paler, giving the appearance of a broad bar : all 

 the coverts white down the shaft, which spreads 



