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Ardea alba remigibus nigris. . t tOfll- 
The white Ardea ,, with the long wing feathers black |ttOtt 
This is a lefs beautiful bird than the former, but it is fomewhat larger, when it 
ftands eredt ; it is between three and four feet high, and it’s body is of about the fize 
of that of a goofe: the head is large, round, and fomewhat depreffed at the top; the 
neck is long, but it is confiderably thicker than that of the heron, and therefore ap¬ 
pears fhorter: the eyes are large and piercing in their afped ; the beak is long and ro- 
buft, very fharp at the point, and all the way of a beautiful red : the head is white* 
as is’alfo the whole neck: the fhoulders, back, and Tides are alfo white, and fo are the 
bread: and belly, but the rump and part of the wings are black. 
The tail is white, but the long feathers of the wings are black; and this, whether 
the wings be clofed or expanded, gives a pleafing variegation to the bird : the legs are 
red, and they are very long, and naked a great way up : the feet are of a deeper red 
than the legs; the toes are long and robud, and the claws long, black, robud, and 
not fharp, but broad, like the nails of the human fingers: the barrels of the quills, 
from the wings, are as large as thofe of the fwan, and they make the mod lading and 
ufeful pens in the world. 
This bird is a native of many parts of Europe, and is preferved in many places 
from all infults and injuries by way of fuperdition ; it does not breed with us, and is 
indeed but rarely feen here. It frequents the fea-coads, and feeds on fifh and reptiles 5 
it has a way of making a very odd noife, by clapping forcibly the two fides of the 
beak together. All the writers on birds have deferibed it. Gefner and many others 
call it, fimply, Ciconia; but Ray, Willughby, and fome more, by way of didin- 
guifhing it from thefpecies before deferibed, call it Ciconia alba, the white Stork. 
Ardea nigro et albo variegata. %l)t 
The variegated , blacky and white Ardea . 
This is of about the fame fize with our common heron, but the head is larger, and 
the neck, though not diorter, is confiderably thicker, and thence appears to be fo 2 
the head is of a rounded figure, fcarce at all depreffed on the crown ; the eyes are 
large, and their afpedt piercing; their iris is yellow : the beak is near a foot long j it 
is of a bright red all the way, except at the tip, where it is blackifh : the opening of 
the mouth is enormoufly wide, and the tongue of a pale flefh colour, and very fmall i 
the head and neck are white, except that in the male there are a few longitudinal 
black dreaks on the back of it: the feathers at the bottom of the neck form a kind 
of ruff; they are of a fnow-white, and are remarkably long and narrow : the back 
is entirely white to the rump, which is variegated in an elegant manner, with black 
and white: the covering feathers of the wings are alfo variegated with black and 
white in large blotches, and the long feathers are entirely black. 
The wings are confiderably long, but the tail is very fhort; when the wings are 
clofed, their tips reach to the extremity of the tail, fo that in this date there is no tail 
at all feen : there is a fine fcarlet fpace about the eyes, when the fkin is naked ; and 
at the bafe of the beak there is alfo a naked fpace, covered with the fame fcarlet fkin 5 
this it can fwell out into a kind of bag, when it it angry : the legs are long and robud, 
they are of a fine red colour: the toes are thick and long, and their claws broad and 
flatted. 
This fpecies frequents the frefh as well as fait waters in South America, and it’s 
flefh is edeemed a delicacy there; it has a way of making the fame odd noife that the 
dork does, by the fnapping together the two parts of the beak. It feeds on reptiles 
that frequent the waters, but not on fifh. Marcgrave, in his account of the Brafils, 
has deferibed it under the name of Ciconia Americana Maguari Brafilienfibus; and 
mod of thofe who have written fince, on the fame fubjedl, have taken his name. 
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