12.
COLLARED H.
Le Heron nolr a collier, Brif, Orn. v. p. 440.
Ardeze congener, Raii Syn. p. 102. 19.
The bird akin to the Heron, Will, Orn, p. 282. pi. 50.
D e s c r i p t io n . g I Z E of a Curlew, Bill fhort*, yellow; marked at the end
and in the middle with a black lp o t: plumage black, except
a ring of white round the neck: legs black.
, P l a c e . Found about Bologna in Italy*
+- NIGHT H.
Ardea ny&icorax, Lin. Syft, i. p. 235. 9,— Scop, Ann, i. p. 116.
Le Bihoreau, Brif, Orn, v. p. 493. 45. pi. 39.— Buf, Oif, vii. p. 435;,
M a l e . , pi. 22.—PI, Enl. 758.
Ardea Kwaka, N. C, Petr, xv. p. 452. t. 14.
Lefler afh-coloured Heron, or Night Raven, Raii Syn, p. 99. 3.—Will. Orn,
p. 279. pi. 49.-—Albint ii. pi. 67.—Ar&, Zool, N° 356.
Lev, Muf.
D e s c r i p t io n . *JpHIS elegant fpecies is in length twenty inches. The bill is
flout, three inches and three quarters long; black, with the
bafe yellowilh : irides orange: lore, and round the eye, green: the
crown of the head is greenilh black,* extending a little way down
the back part of the neck, and there ends in a point: from the
hind head fpring three very narrow feathers, near fix inches in
length, of a pure white, with dufky tips : the hind part of the
neck, and fides, are afh-colour: the upper part of the back dull
* In Willughby's plate the bill is curved, not much lefs than in the bird called
Ibis, in pi. 49. I therefore fufpe£t that this bird does not belong to the Heron
genus.
green |
green: the lower part, rump, wings, and tail, pale afh-colour :
the forehead, and reft of the body, white : legs yellowilh green:
claws dufky.
Ardea Grifea, Lin. SjJl. i. p. 239. 22. NIGHT H.
Le Heron gris, Brif. Or«, v. p. 412. 9. Female.
Femelle du Bihoreau, PL EnL 759.
C I Z E of the laft. Bill the fame: lore white: crown of the D e s c r i p t io n .
^ head brown and glofly: the upper parts of the body the fame,
but with a tinge of grey s the hind parts of the neck paleft, and
ftreaked with darker brown down the ftiaft; and the lower part
of the. back and rump almoft grey : over the eye, from the nof-
trils, is a whitilh ftreak, mixed with brown : the cheeks are of a
mixed white and brown colour : the chin is whiter but the fore
part of the neck is grey, marked with a yellowilh ftreak down
each lhaft; the feathers towards the bottom of the neck longer
than the others : the reft of the under parts grey, growing white
on the belly and vent: the wings are grey brown, ftreaked
with yellowilh white j fome of the greater coverts tipped with
white : the quills are cinereous grey; and the eighteen firft have
white tips : tail the fame colour; all, except the two middle feathers,
marked more or lefs with white at the ends : legs grey
brown.
This bird is common both to Europe and America-, but, except P lace and
, • 1 • t • M A N N E R- S •
in a fingle inftance, I do not hear of its having been met with in
England* : it is moft likely not met with fo far north as Sweden,
• One of thefe, a male, is in the Lemrian Mufeum; which was (hot, not
many miles from London, in the month of May, 1782.
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