76 
Allen’s naturalist’s library. 
I tSr’, ”f„ "S 'Sf 4Th!'' 5“ 
insect-food,” searcn lor their usual 
Nest.— A somewhat large structure, made of stick<; thp i; ■ 
consisting of smaller twiVc if • oi sticKs, the lining 
whenitisbuiUr am^nd he '•“■^hes 
the time the young hav?le tL nesf 
after year. ‘‘ve leit the nest. 1 his is repaired year 
an3’'‘;rt? te si”!"' ’Z’? V'," 8:'»»1>-Wue colour, 
Heron. A.iZ^t^no^Tcll.?’!.,??”;” ” 
the little egrets, genus garzetta. 
Garzetta, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 76 (1829). 
Type, G. garzetla (L.). 
the preceding glmfs, haw a mu^ch "01 plumage of 
hill in proportion to their si/e and thf^r slender 
length of the middle toe and chw exceeds the 
than the bill, and the dorsal train 
feathers are gracefully recurved The h^rf 
crest, but on the nape are some rlre ^ '^ead shows no absolute 
the chest there are also some lance°ok’tf wh'f 
I. Ilford remarks that the Little Eirrpi-Q plumes. Lord 
when animated, which the specS ?f 
do. P lierodias never seem to 
There are only two species of the o-onne n , 
Egret of Europe and Africa (C?. 4 -C A 
' which also extends 
