gs THE NATURAL HISTORY 
go to the warm {prings that remain unfrozen, he 
feels about in the mud with his foot for his prey. 
_ By means of his long legs he can go a foot 
deep into water, without wetting himfelf; his toes 
are very long, and his beak is armed with little 
teeth, turning backwards, Ne 9c. 
Herons are very long lived, it is sctala: that 
they live more than hay years. 
_ There are -many {pecies of the Heron. The 
_ Crefted Purple Heron is one., It is found near 
| the Cafpian and the Black Seas, in the lakes of 
Great Tartary, and on the river Irtis, in Siberia. 
The common Heron i is found in almoft every 
eeactcs 
. The Great. and Little Poste are Roth found 
jn South America, | 
2 'Rhe Little Egret i is found too in Aftica and | ne 
Afia. 2 
Egrets have long filky es on their bakes 
holies often wear them in their head- ee 
Warriors often wear them in their helmets, and- 
the Sultan, or the Emperor of the Turks, wears 
them fometimes in his turban or cap. __ | 
‘Thefe feathers are foft and filky; a tuft of them 
grows from each fhoulder, they fpread over the — 
_ back, and beyond the tail, pee 
2 There 
