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BUFF-BACKED HERON. 
LITTLE WHITE HEEGIST. 
BED-BILLED HEEOIV. EUEOUS-BACKED EGrEET. 
Ardea (Equinoctial!s , 
“ russata , 
“ affinis, 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Selby. Jenyns. 
Horsfield. 
Ardea — A Heron. 
JEquinoctialis —Equinoctial. 
This species of Heron is a native of the southern parts 
of Europe—in Turkey, about the mouths of the Danube, on 
that intermediate sort of ‘neutral’ soil which ‘nec tellus est 
nec mare,’ as also in the Crimsea—both localities so full of 
interest at the present moment to others than ornithologists. 
In Dalmatia, and near the Caucasian range of mountains. 
In Asia, it likewise occurs in India and Japan, according to 
M. Temminck; also in the Dukkun, Himalaya, and Nepaul, 
where it is plentiful in Upper Hindostan, and by the bank 
of the famous Glunga, as also in Java, Sunda, and the adjacent 
islands. * 
One specimen, a female, was shot by Mr. F. Cornish, at 
South Allington, in the parish of Chivelstone, near Kings- 
bridge, in Devonshire, in the end of October, 1805. It was 
observed for several days in the same field, attending a herd 
of cows. 
It appeared to be by no means shy. 
It fed on insects. 
Male; length, about one foot eight inches; bill, yellow, 
darker at the tip; the upper mandible slightly curved; iris, 
bright yellow. Head on the crown, back, and sides, of an 
orange colour, but the base of each feather white, the orange- 
coloured ends formed of the loose unconnected filaments of 
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