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44. Ardea cyanocephala, the blue-headed heron : crown 56. Ardea pileata, the black-crefted heron : hind-head 
creded, and with the back blue ; wings black, edged with 
white. Bill black; belly yellow-green ; tail green ; legs 
yellow. Inhabits Chili. 
45. Ardea candidiflima, the fnowy heron : fnow-white ; 
bill and legs blackifh ; eyes and toes yellow ; cred very 
long, (hading 1 he hind-head, neck, bread, and back. In¬ 
habits near Carthagena in America; lefs than Ardea del- 
laris. 
46. Ardea calcanea', the cadaneous heron: chefnut, 
beneath wliite ; face and eyebrows green; pouched chin 
and rump white; head crelied. Bill livid at the bale, 
brown at the tip ; b ids diitron ; (Ides of the head yellow- 
idi ; neck yellow-hay, beneatli varied yellow and whitifh ; 
quill and tail-feathers lnowy ; wing-coverts ochre. In¬ 
habits near the Tanais : twenty-two inches long; builds 
in trees. 
'47. Ardea Sqnajotta, the Bologna heron : bay; creft 
on the head black, the middle feathers white ; fcapulars 
long, narrow, white at the bafe. Bill yellow, tipt with 
black; face naked, yellow; cred with thirty feathers; 
legs green. Inhabits Italy ; eighteen inches long. 
43 Ardea galeata, the galeated heron : hind-head fub- 
creded ; body milk-white ; bill pale yellow ; legs fcarlet. 
Inhabits Chili : two feet feven inches high; bill four 
inches long. 
49. Ardea ferruginen, the ferruginous heron : head fub- 
creded ; body blackifh, the feathers ferruginous at the 
tips ; beneath varied with ferruginous, whitidt, brown, 
and cinereous. Bill above brown, beneath readifli-green ; 
face naked, green ; irids faffVon ; chin pale ochre ; quill- 
feathers black-brown tipt with white ; legs greenidi. In¬ 
habits Europe and Ada; twenty-one inches' long; mi¬ 
grates; feeds on fillt and infedls, and builds on the top 
branches of trees. 
50. Ardea erythropns, the red legged heron : head 
crelted ; body chefinit-fafTron, beneath deeper ; bill blue ; 
legs red. There is a variety with the neck fpotted at 
t he fides; legs pale yellowilh. Bill tipt with black; 
head varied with yellow and black. Inhabits Italy: fize 
of Ardea virefeens. 
51. Ardea driata, the driated heron: hind-head fub- 
creded ; back hoary, dreaked ; neck beneath ferruginous ; 
fecondary quill-feathers tipt with white. Crown black ; 
quill feathers brown. Inhabits Guiana and Surinam ; 
fize of Ardea cinerea. 
52. Ardea naevia, the fpotted heron : brown ; hind- 
head black, fubereded ; long quill-feathers blackifl), tipt 
•with white ; dtoulders dreaked with white. Bill and 
legs deep brown ; behind each eye a fmall, oblong, black 
patch ; cheeks and Tides of the neck pale rudv ; throat 
and fore-part of the neck white, thickly fpotted with 
black; body beneath pale brown; thighs with minute, 
longitudinal, black fpots ; long quill-feathers with a 
white (pot at the tip ; tail black. Inhabits South Ame¬ 
rica. Cim. Pltyf. 70 tab. 36. 
53. Ardea virefeens, the green heron : hind-head fub- 
crefied ; back (hining green ; bread reddifh ; lores pale 
yellow; tail feathers gold-green, (male.) Brown gold- 
green, beneath whitifh ; neck reddidi, dreaked with 
white ; wing coverts and quill-feathers fpotted with 
white, (female.) Bill greenifh-brown ; legs yellowifh ; 
crown deep green. Male; quill-feathers gold-green, fe¬ 
condary edged with rudy. Female ; cred hardly any ; 
wing-coverts with triangular rufous-white fpots at the 
sip. Inhabits South America; eighteen inches long; 
fits on trees. 
54. Ardea Bononienfis, the collared heron : black ; 
collar white ; legs and two fpots on the yellow bill black. 
Hi habits about Bononia ; dze of a curlew. 
55. Ardea alba, the great white heron: headfmooth; 
body white; bill tawny; legs black. Bill fix inches 
long; irids yellowilh; lores green. Inhabits Europe, 
Afi3, and America 5 three feet iix inches long. 
creded ; body white; crown black. Bill brown; legs 
pale yellow ; lores grey-green. Inhabits Guiana : about 
the fize of the lad. 
57. Ardea nivea, the fnowy heron: head finooth ; bill 
and legs black ; body fnowy ; feathers of the neck and 
back flowing. Face yellowifh blue ; toes fad'ron. In¬ 
habits the Shores of the Cafpian Sea : above two feet long. 
58. Ardea helias, the barred heron : head fmooth : 
body above black, waved with tranfverfe ferruginous 
lines : beneath whitifh : quill and tail-feathers witlt fer¬ 
ruginous bars. Bill blackifh ; tongue very narrow, 
grooved; pupil red; head and beginning of the neck, 
black with white ftreaks; rump with tranfverfe white 
lines; feven of the tail-coverts with a large white fpot at 
the tip ; tail blackifh, dreaked with white and two fer¬ 
ruginous bands. Inhabits South America : dxteen inches 
long ; feeds on fmall fidi and infetds, and expands the tail 
like a peacock. 
59. Ardea facra, the facred heron : head fmooth : body 
white : inner wing coverts and tail-feathers with black 
lines: dorfal feathers jagged, white. There is a variety 
with the crown white : body variegated white and black : 
dorfal feathers jagged, black: legs black. Middle of 
the crown with a few black dreaks; bill brown; legs 
yellow; greater quill-feathers dulky at the tips. Inha¬ 
bits Otaheite : two feet and a quarter long; is held fa¬ 
cred by the natives. 
60. Ardea atra, the black heron : entirely black : 
face naked : head fmooth. Inhabits Silefia : fize of Ardea 
major. Wings blueidi. 
61. A^dea purpurata, the purple heron : headfmooth'; 
crown and neck blackifh-afh : body above purple bay, 
beneath cinereous : face naked, yellowifh. Upper man¬ 
dible yellowidi-grecn, lower yellowifh ; neck above with 
blackifit lines; throat with yellowifh fpots; quill-fea¬ 
thers blackifh-brown ; legs brown. InhabitsUie banks 
of the Danube : fize of Ardea major. 
62. Ardea fpadicea, the Mexican heron : purple-bay, 
wings, tail, and fmooth head, bay ; crown black. Inha¬ 
bits New Spain : a foot long. 
63. Ardea iEquinodtialis, the little white heron : head 
fmooth : body white : two fird quill-feathers brown on 
the outer edge. j 3 . Crown and bread faffron : lores and 
legs yellow-fatfron. y. Lores pale yellow : bill purple: 
legs pale purple. Bill and lores red ; irids yellow ; legs 
green. Inhabits America, ( 3 . Bononia'; eighteen inches 
long. 
64. Ardea cracra, the Martinico heron : head fmooth 5 
body variegated with reddifh, above blueifh-afh, beneath 
cinereous; neck beneath and bread white. Bill black, be¬ 
neath yellowifh-brown ; irids golden; orbits naked, yel¬ 
lowifh ; hind-head and neck above brown mixed with a yel¬ 
low dead-leaf colour; lelfer wing-coverts green, edged 
witlt rufous, the greater and quill-feathers edged with 
white; tail greenifh-black ; legs yellow. Inhabits South 
America, near the banks of rivers. 
65. Ardea leucocephala, the violet heron: black- 
velvet ; crown fmooth, black ; red of the head, neck, and 
vent, white. Bill and legs brown; lower part of the neck 
blueilh-black; lower tail-coverts white. Inhabits Coro¬ 
mandel ; thirty-three inches long. 
66. Ardea rufa, the rufous heron : black; head frqooth ; 
temples ferruginous; bread rufous; lower part of the 
neck whitifh, with longitudinal brownifh fpots; upper 
part, back, and wings, brown-afh. From each eye to the 
hind-head a black dreak ; legs brown. Inhabits Auf- 
tria ; fize of Ardea major. 
67. Ardea Sinenfis, the Chinefe heron: brown with 
pale bars ; headfmooth; wings and tail black. Inhabits 
China ; fmall. Bill yellowifh ; legs green. 
63 . Ardea variegata, the variegated heron : ferruginous 
fpotted with brown, beneath paler ; front black ; chin 
white; thighs rufous ; legs brown. 
69. Ardea. 
