AVES GRALLiE. Ardea. 
698 
Habitat in ^fia^ ad mare Cajpium frequens ; Helvetia , — 2 ped, io| 
pollices longa. 
Corpus cinereo-olivaceum : pe^us et abdomen caflaneo-purpurafcentia, 
carina nigra : caput fuperius fplendide nigrum : crifta concolor, in qua 
pennae 1 longae ; collum rufum ftriis tribus nigris : remiges cinereo-ni- 
gricantes : cauda cinerea fubtus : fubtus et lora flavicantia : pe~ 
des virefcentes. 
73 ' . . , . . 
calpica. A. criftata corpore cinereo, collo pedtore abdomineque ferrugineis, gula 
alba, collo lineis tribus nigris. 
Ardea cafpica, Gmel. reije. ii. p. 195. t. 24. 
African Heron, Lath. Syn. Sup. p. 237. 
Habitat in Africa.^ Afia\ rariffima in Anglia. — Magnit. A. cinereae, 
Rojirum et pedes lutei : crifta verticis e pennis nigris tres digitos lon- 
gis : linea nigra latior colli z. nucha ad dorft initium, et altera 
utnnque lateribus : pennae elongatae pedloris et uropygii ferrugineo va- 
riae. Vix a praecedente fatis diftindta. Nonne avis annotina ? 
74. 
Botaurus. A. criftata cinereo-fufca fubtus rufa, vertice nigro, gula juguloque albo 
ftriis nigris. 
Ardea Botaurus, Gmel. Syft. i. p. 636. 
Botaurus major, BriJ. v.p. 455. 28. — Id. 8vo. ii. p. 330. — N. C. Petr. 
XV. p. 482. 22. t. 24 ? 
Ardea ftellaris major, feu rubra, Raii Syn. p. 100. 13. — JVilL pi 208. 
Grand Butor, Buf. viL p. 422. — Dec. Rujft. ii. p. 146. 
Greater fpeckled or red Heron, JVill. ( Angi.) p. 283. 
Greater Bittern, Lath. Syn. v. p. 58. 18. 
Habitat in Italia j purpurea affinis. — 3 ped. 9 poli, longa. 
75. 
purpurata. A. capite laevi colloque cinereo-nigricantibus, corpore fupra caftaneo- 
purpureo fubtus cinereo. 
Ardea purpurata, Gmel. Syft. i. p. 641. 
— purpurafcens, BriJ. v. p. 420. 12. — Id. 8vo. ii. p. 320. 
Heron pourpre, Buf. vii. p 369. 
Purple Heron, Lath. Syn. v. p. 96. 66 . 
Habitat ad ripam Danubii. — Rojirum fupra viridi-fiavicans, fubtus 
flavicans : cervix lineolis nigricantibus *. pedes fufci. 
A. caftaneo- 
