NORTH AMERICAN A5H-C0L0URED HERON". 
*' Thisbird,'^ Edwards adds, " was brought 
well preserved from Hudson's Bay. I can- 
not,'* says he, " discover any description 
agreeing with the above, so shall pronounce 
it a non-descript. This is one of the biggest 
of the Heron-kind ; but Mr. Catesby has de- 
scribed one of North America, seemingly to 
me much larger. He has given a figure of 
the head only as big as the life ; he makes the 
bill measure, from the point to the angles of 
the mouth, seven inches and three quarters ; 
and, if the other parts bear proportion wiili 
the measures of the above-described, it must 
be much bigger than mine." See Catcsbv's 
large Crested Heron, in the Appendix to his 
Natural History of Carolina, dec. 
