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a long pendent creft ; body cinereous; line on the neck 
beneath the pe’Sror.d bar black, (male.) Hind-head 
Hno.oth, black; back blueifti, beneath whitilh ; breaft 
with oblong, black ('pots, (female.) Bill dufky, the bafe 
beneath yellowifti ; area of the eyes naked, .greenifli ; irius 
yellow; temples black; front, crown, and neck above, 
white; fpiirious wings and greater quill-feathers black ; 
(capillars and feathers of the throat long, lax, narrow; 
body beneath white; legs dirty green. Female; c re ft 
hardly any ; head grey ; feathers above the breaft fhort. 
Inhabits a I mo ft every where in fenny places; is very vo¬ 
racious, and preys on fifti and reptiles, and even vegeta¬ 
bles ; is a great depredator on fiih-ponds ; flies very high 
with its head between its (boulders and its legs pendulous; 
builds frequently in trees, and lays four or five grecnifh- 
blue eggs; three feet three incites long. 
21. Ardea garzetla, the little egret: hind-head crefl- 
ed ; body, white; bill black; lores and legs greenifli, 
Irids yellowifti ; creft confiding of fonie (hurt and two 
long feathers ; face naked, green ; claws black. Inha¬ 
bits marfhy places in temperate regions ; a foot long. 
22. Ardea leucogafter, the demi-egret : blueifh-black, 
beneath white; creft on the hind-head of two feathers ; 
bill, naked face, and legs, yellow. Lower part of the back, 
with fome long, pendulous, rufous feathers. Inhabits 
Cayenne ; hardly two feet long. 
23. Ardea rufefcen.% the reddifti egret : blackifh-grey; 
lores and orbits green ; feathers of the head and neck, 
and longer narrow ones of the back, rufty-rufous. Bill 
yellowifti, dufky at the tip ; legs black. Inhabits Loui- 
liania , near two ect long. 
24. Ardea egretta, the great egret: fuberefted, white ; 
legs black ; feathers of the back and breaft lax, narrow 
and very long. Creft hardly viftble ; bill black or dirty- 
yellow, dufky on the back and at the tip. Inhabits South 
America : about two feet long ; is folitary, (by, lies hid 
among the tall reeds, and feeds by night. 
25. Ardea agami, the agami heron : black-blue, be¬ 
neath rufous ; hind-head crefted’; orbits and chin white. 
Bill dufky; cap and fix-feathered long creft blue; nape 
and jagged fcapulars pale blue ; lower part of the neck 
and back with long pendulous feathers. Inhabits Cay¬ 
enne ; thirty-one inches long. 
26. Ardea cocoi, the cocoi heron : hind-head, pendent 
creft, and back, cinereous; neck beneath fpofted with 
black; Tides of the head black. Bill greeni(h-yellow ; 
irids golden; body cinereous; creft five inches and a half 
long; cheeks, chin, and crown, white; neck and back 
with very long, pendulous feathers. Inhabits Brafil and 
Cayenne ; above three feet long. 
27. Ardea Johannas, the Johanna heron: above cine¬ 
reous, beneath white ; pendent creft and quill feathers 
black ; feathers of the throat long, lax, and fpotted with 
black. Bill yellowifti; face naked, yellow i(h-green ; legs 
brown. 
28. Ardea ftifca, the brown heron : creft blackifti ; 
body blackifh-brown, beneath white; breaft with long 
brown fpots. Inhabits Cayenne ; two feet and a half 
long. Bill brown; legs yellow. 
29 Ardea hoadtii, the dry heron : crefted head and 
body above black, beneath white ; face naked, yellowifti; 
front between the eyes white; wings and tail cinereous. 
Bill black, yellow at the ftdes ; irids and legs yellow. 
Female above brown mixed with whitifh, beneath white 
tinged with brown. Inhabits the lakes of New Spain; 
three feet three inches long. 
30. Ardea liohou, the houhoti heron: head purple, 
crefted; body cinereous ; angles of the wings white , front 
varied black and white; wing coverts blue and cinere¬ 
ous. Bill black; legs variegated with brown, black, and 
yellowifti ; creft conlifts of (even purple feathers. Inha¬ 
bits the fens of Mexico : a rare biid. 
31. Ardea fndica, the Lohaujung heron : varied with 
Vcl. II. No. 62. 
E A. 
brown and green ; fecondary quill-feathers green ; tail 
black; wing-coverts, primary quill feathers, and body be- 
nealh, white. Bill black ; legs flefli colour; crown, neck, 
and hind - part of the back, with green (pots; fometimes 
the back is white. Inhabits India ; t It tee feet long. 
32. Ardea fiavicol 1 is, the yellow necked heron: creft 
on the hind-head and body black; neck yellowifti at the 
(ides, the fore part chefnut, the feathers edged with black 
and white. Inhabits India ; two feet long. 
33. Ardea Novas Hollandias, the white-fronted heron : 
fuberefted; lead-cinereous, beneath rufty-rufous ; face, be¬ 
yond the eyes, chin, ai)d throat, white. Bill black, the 
bafe underneath yellowifti ; lores and orbits naked, green- 
ifh ; legs yellow-brown ; feathers of the crown long, 
black ; cheeks, chin, front and fore-part of the neck as 
far as the middle, white; feathers of the cheft long. In¬ 
habits New Holland; twenty-eight inches long. 
34. Ardea Herodias, the great heron : hind-head creft¬ 
ed ; body brown; thighs rufous ; breaft with oblong 
black fpots. Bill brown ; face yellowifti ; creft and quill- 
feathers black ; neck and breaft rufous. Inhabits the 
lakes and rivers of Virginia; feeds on lizards, frogs and 
fifti ; above five feet long. 
35. Ardea Ludoviciana, the Louifiana heron : head 
and neck rufous ; frontwliite, fpotted with rufous ; crown 
crefted ; wing-coverts and tail green ; back cinereous, 
with a purple tinge; breaft rufous-brown. Bill dufky; 
lores yellowifti ; quill feathers blackifti, many of them tipt 
with white ; wing- coverts edged with tawny ; legs yellow. 
Inhabits Louifiana; fixteen inches long. 
36. Ardea violacea, the yellow-crowned heron': hind- 
head pale yellow ; creft white ; body (freaked black, and 
white, beneath blneifli ; legs pale yellow. Bill black ; 
irids red; face naked, green; creft four or fix inches long; 
head violet ; from the angle of the mouth each fide to the 
hind-head a white (freak ; quill-feathers blueifti-brown ; 
tail blue. Inhabits Carolina : fifteen inches and a half long, 
37. Ardea ccerulea, the blue heron : hind-head creft¬ 
ed ; body blue. Bill and lores blue ; legs green. Fe¬ 
male; head and neck dufky-purple ; chin and middle of 
the throat white ; back lead-colour. Inhabits America : 
eighteen inches long. 
38. Ardea ccerulefcens, the bluifti heron : crefted ; 
body dufky-blue ; head and neck rufous-brown; bind- 
head with two long feathers. Bill pale yellow ; lores 
red; legs brown. Inhabits Cayenne: nineteen inches 
long. 
39. Ardea rnbiginofa, the rufty crowned heron : ferru¬ 
ginous, beneath whitifh ftriate with black; head fub- 
crefted ; chin white; back with a few black fpots. Bill 
ftender ; irids and legs yellow; front and quill-feathers 
dtilky; throat with four black Breaks ; feathers of the 
breaft long, loofe ; from the breaft to the upper part of 
the neck a black line ; tail fhort, lead-colour. Inhabits 
North America : (ize of Ardea (lellaris. 
40. Ardea Hudfonia, the rcd-(honidered heron : crefted 
crown black ; body brownifh, beneath whitifh ; neck be¬ 
neath fpotted with reddifti black. Bill above black, be¬ 
neath tawny; face greenifn-yellow ; temples, lower part 
of the head and breaft white, the latter with oblong 
black fpots; neck beneath brown, with deeper bars; 
legs dufky. Inhabits North America: perhaps the fe¬ 
male of the laft. 
41. Ardea comata, the fquacco heron: ferruginous, 
beneath white ; hind-head with a long, white, pendent 
creft, edged with black. Bill livid red, tipt with brown ; 
lores greeni (h ; irids yellow ; rump, wings, and tail, w hite ; 
legs greenifh yellow. 
42. Ardea erythrocephala, the red-crefted heron : 
hind-head with a red pendent creft ; body white. Inha¬ 
bits Chili. 
43. Ardea Thula, the Chilian heron : hind head crefted 
and with the reft of the body white. Inhabits Chili. 
M m 44. Ardea 
