BIRDS. GRALL^. so.Ardea. 2;7y 
Inhabits Cayenne .* 21 inches long. 
Hill black ; lores pale green ; a white line from the nojlrus be- 
neath the eyes to the hind-head; body blucilli-alh ; i^nill-Jea- 
thers black ; lers ycllowiih. 
Hind-head black ; creft pendent, of 2 long feather# ; 
body olive, beneath purplilli. ■ Crejled purple //, 
Inhabits Afia : 2 feet 10 inches long. 
Bill brown tipt with dufky, beneath yellowifh ; crejl black ; 
orbits naked yellowifh ; from the angle of the mouth to the 
hind-head a black ftreak ; chin white ; upper half of the neck 
rufous, with 0 longitudinal black lines, the left olive behintl, 
rufous at the Tides' mvd refldifh on the fore-part, the feathers 
long, narrow, each with a black fpot ; a black band from the 
middle of the breajl to the vent ; lower tail-coverts white, 
mixed with rufous and tipt with black ; angles of the 
rufous; quill-feathers dulky, legs greenifh. 
• Crefted ; body cinereous ; neck, breaft and belly ferru^- 
nous ; chin white ; neck with 3 black lines. 
African H. 
Inhabits Africa, Afa, and is veiy rarely found in England: 
fize of A. cinerea. 
Bill and legs yellow ; crejl of 3 long feathers ; feathers of the 
breaft. and rump mixed with ferruginous ; from the nape to 
tha back a broad, black line, and aiiotlicr on eac r of the 
jides. 
Hind-head with a long, pendent creft ; body cinereous ; 
line on the neck beneath and pectoral bar black, 
(male). Common H, 
2. Hind-head fmooth, black ; back blueifli, beneath whitifh ; 
brealf with oblong, black fpots, (female). 
Inhabits almoft eveiy where in fenny places ; is very vora- 
cious, and preys on blh and reptiles, and even vegetables , is 
a great depredator on filh-ponds ; flies very high with its 
head between its fhoulders and its legs pendulous ; builds 
frequently in trees, and lays 4 — 5 greenifh-blue eggs , 3 
3 inches long. 
Bill dulky, the bafe beneath yellowifh ; area of the eyes nakso, 
greenifh ; irids yellow ; temples black ; front, 
neck above white; fpuvious rvwgr and greater 
