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and green ; they are naked but a little way above the knee, and the toes are Ion? and 
armed with red claws. 0 
This is a native of the Baft, and of fome parts of Europe. Aldrovand calls it Ar« 
dea vulgo Squaiotta didta, and moft of the writers fince have ufed the fame name. 
Ardea cinerea pe&ore et lateribus 7*ufis. 
The grey Ardea ., with thebreaft and fides of a reddijh-brown. 
This is a fingular and a beautiful bird ; it is of the fize of the common heron, but 
it’s neck is not quite fo long as in that fpecies: the head is large and rounded; the 
beak is long, and very robuft; it is of a very deep olive, or a mixt tinge of greenifti 
and black : the eyes are very large, and their iris is of a deep orange colour: the 
crown of the head is of a deep black colour, and from the hinder part of it there 
hangs a confiderably long creft of the fame black, but fometimes toward the ed^es a 
little variegated with a deep iron grey : the neck is of a very deep grey on the upper 
or outer fide, and of a much paler at the throat. 
The back is of a bright aftiy grey, but toward the rump it it is much darker than 
elfewhere; and in the male bird it is all over very dark, in comparifon of what it is 
in the female: the fnoulders give origin to a confiderable number of long and flender 
feathers, which fall down to the fides, and are reddifh, or of a ferrugineous brown ° 
the breaft alfo is of the fame reddifh-brown, and the belly has the fame tint but paler j 
the covering feathers alfo, of the under part of the wings, are of this reddifh-brown/ 
The thighs are of a whitifh brown, but ftill with fome tinge of the ferrugineous or 
reddifh among it: the legs are robuft and long, and are of the fame dark olive co¬ 
lour with the beak. 
We have this fpecies in our marfhy places. Aldrovand has defcribed it under the 
name of Ardea ftellaris major five rubra; and moft authors, who have written fince, 
have copied the name, though it very ill expreffes the colouring of the bird. 
Ardea ferruginea nigro variegata . 
The ferrugineous Ardea , variegated with black . 
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This is nearly of the fize of our common heron, but the body is fmaller, in pro¬ 
portion to the length of the neck and the legs: the head is large, and of an oblong 
figure, narrowed; at the front, and broader behind : the beak is five inches long, and 
of a greenifh-olive colour; the eyes are large, and their iris yellow, and they have a 
very piercing afpedt. 
The head is of a very deep brown, approaching to black, and has no creft, and 
very little of the black variegation : the whole body is of a bright ferrugineous brown, 
fpotted in a beautiful manner with black, in fmall variegations; the back is darker, 
and has more of thefe; the belly is paler, and has fewer. 
The wings are large, and their long feathers are edged with black: the covering 
ones are of the fame brown with the body, and fpotted in the fame manner: the tail 
is fhort, and does not reach beyond the tips of the wings, when they are clofed : 
there is a little whitenefs toward it’s bafe, and at the fides of the belly; otherwife the 
bird is throughout of the fame brown. 
The legs are long, robuft, and of a blackifh-olive colour: the toes are long, and 
the claw of the middle one is ferrated. 
This fpecies is a native of the Brafils and South America. Marcgrave calls it So- 
co Brafilienfibus. 
Ardea 
