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BRITISH BIRDS. 
GREAT WHITE HERON. 
{^Ardea alia, Lin . — Le Heron hlanc, Buff.) 
The great white Eleron is of nearly the fame 
bulk as the common Heron, but its legs are long- 
er. It has no creft, and its plumage is wholly 
white y its bill yellov/, and its legs black. 
Its character and manner of living are the fame 
as thofe of the common Heron, and it is found in 
the fame countries, though this fpecies is not near- 
ly fo numerous. It has rarely been feen in Great 
Britain. Pennant, in his Ar£lic Zoology, fays it is 
found in the Ruffian dominions, about the Cafpian 
and Black Seas, the lakes of Great Tartary, and the 
river Irtifch, and fometimes as far north as latitude 
53. Latham fays, it is met with at New York, in 
America, from June to Odober ; at different fea- 
fons of the year it is found in Jamaica, and in the 
Brazils : and our circumnavigators have met with 
it at New Zealand. 
