The Hiftory of ANIMALS, 465 
fpaler, and there is fome tinge of yellowifh in it: the whole bird, however, at a 
mall didance, appears of one uniform brown. 
The neck is fhorter in this fpecies than in any other of the genus, but the legs are 
long; they are of a bright red colour, and are naked about the joint, commonly 
called the knee: the toes are very long, and the claws large and broad. 
This lingular fpecies is a native of Italy, and of fome parts of the Eaft 5 many of 
the writers on thefe fubjetds have defcribed it, though fome have omitted it. Aldro- 
vand calls it Ardea Haematopus, five Cirris Virgilii Scaligero 5 others have called it Ar~ 
dea Haematopus. 
Ardea fulva capite et collo nigro y flavo , et albova ~ 
riegatis. 
‘The yellowifh Ardea , with the head and neck varie- 
gated with alack , white y and yellow. 
This, when it dands ere<d, is about fourteen inches in height; the body is mode- 
rately large, but the neck is fhorter than in mod others of this genus: the head is 
large and round ; the eyes are large, and their iris is of a gold yellow : the beak is 
not more than three inches in length, but it is very robuft; it’s colour throughout is 
blackifh, but with a mixture of a ferrugineous brown. 
The neck is very thick, and this, as well as the head, is very elegantly variegated 
with oblong and irregular blotches of black, white, and yellow : the back and fhoul- 
ders, as alfo the rump, are of a deep ferrugineous brown, with fome obfcure varie¬ 
gations of blackifh and yellowifh, but no white : the wings are in great part white, 
but there is fome variegation of a yellowifh-brown in them: the bread and belly are 
perfectly white, and fo is the tail, which is fhort, and does not appear beyond the 
tips of the wings, when they are clofed. 
The legs are long and yet robud; they are yellow, and are naked a good way 
above the knee : the toes are long, and the claws flatted. 
This is a native of the coads of the Levant in many places. Aldrovand is the fird 
author who has defcribed it, and from him mod of the others have borrowed their 
accounts of it. He calls it Ardea quam Squacco vocant; and Ray and Willughby 
have continued the name. 
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Ardea ferruginea y crifta capitis nigro et albo variegata . 
The brown Ardea y with a black and white creft . 
This is about eighteen inches high, when it dands ere<d: the head is fmall, and ap¬ 
pears the more fo, as the neck is thick : the eyes are moderately large 5 their iris is of 
a deep orange colour, with an admixture of a fiery red : the beak is between four and 
five inches in length, of a yellowifh colour toward the bafe, and black at the extre¬ 
mity : the tongue is fmall and red. 
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The head in general is of a deep ferrugineous brown, but it is ornamented on the 
hinder part with a moderately long cred of a mixed brown, black, and white co¬ 
lour ■ this hangs down upon the neck, and is a very great ornament to the bird : the 
neck is of a deep ferrpgineous colour: the back and the upper part of the wings are 
alfo of the fame colour, but with a greater admixture of reddifh : the long feathers of 
the wings, are black; the tail alfo is black, and is a little longer than the tips of the 
wings, when they are clofed. In the males, the middle feathers of the cred are of a 
pure white, and the outer ones black; but in the females the variegation is irregular, 
and there is an admixture of brown, like that of the body : the legs are long, robud, 
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