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ardea violacea. 
PWlxdelilhir'^''* on tho borders of SchuylkiU belo" 
The food of this species consists of small fish, crabs 
and lizards, particularly the former; it also appears W 
tiavo a stronjf attachment to the neighbourhood of tb‘ 
ocean. ® 
1 ^I'l® yo^^ow'-cronmed heron is twenty-two inches io 
leng-th, from the point of the bill to the end of the taill 
the long flowing plumes of the back extend fonrinchet 
farther,- breadth, from tip to tip of the expaudeJ 
wings, thirty-four inches; bill, black, stout, and aboi>' 
four inch es m lengtli, I lie upper mandible groor*^ 
exactly like that of the common night heron ; lore* 
pale green; indes, fiervred ; head and part of the neck- 
black, marked on each cheek with an oblong spot d 
white ; w-csted crown and upper part of the head, whitft 
euaiug in two long narrow taperifig plumes of pHi< 
white, more than seven inches long; under these^ at* 
wImT “ •^'i“'*''sh colour; rest of the neck an^ 
nart ef f*!'' ^"“‘'"■hat whitish on lh»< 
part of the neck where it joins the black; upper part?- 
a dark ash each feather streaked broadly- down tb‘ 
centre with black, and bordered with white; wing- 
quills, deep slate, edged finely ivitli white ; tail, eve» 
at the end, and of the same ash colour; wing-covert.-y 
deep slate, broad y edged with pale cream; from each 
shoulder proceed a number of long loosely webbe^ 
taiienng feathers, of an ash colour, streaked broadlf 
down the middle with black, and extending Cr iS 
01 1110 le beyond the tips of the yviugs; leirs and feel- 
yellow ; middle claw, pectinated. Male and female, -i’ 
111 the common night heron, alike in plumage. 
i:«f suspect that the species called” by naturfl- 
lists the Cayenne night heron (Ardea CanaLn^A^ 
nothing more than tlie presenCwith whiifraceor^if 
to then descnptions, it seems to agree almost exactly'- 
