GREEN HERON. 
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There is one circumstance attending this bird which, I recol- 
lect, at first surprised me. On shooting and wounding one, I car- 
ried it some distance by the legs, which were at first yellow ; but 
on reaching home, I perceived, to my surprise, that they were 
red. On letting the bird remain some time undisturbed, they 
again became yellow, and I then discovered that the action of the 
hand had brought a flow of blood into them, and produced the 
change of color. I have remarked the same in those of the Night 
Heron. 
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