LITTLE EGRET. 
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tail, and tail coverts, white. Legs, bright black above the 
knee on the bare part, and the upper half of the part below 
it is dark yellowish green; toes, also blackish green with a 
tinge of yellow; claws, dusky black. 
The young are at first, it is said, greyish white; they 
are without the elongated filaments to the feathers on the 
back of the head and the lower part of the neck in front 
and the back. The lower bill is whitish for more than half 
its length from the base. 
