or Linn<etts would have mentioned it in his Fauna» Pretty common
in Ruffia, particularly on the river Don, where it builds on
trees . is met with alfo at AJlrachan during fummer* : formerly
in plenty at Sevenhuys, near Leyden, along with the Spoon-tills and
other birds f ; but the wood that grew there is now no more
It migrates, like many of the fpecies, being found at Aleppo-, and
I have often feen figures of it in Cbinefe drawings ||. In America
it is met with at New Fork and Rhode IJland, and probably common
to other parts ot that continent. It is faid to make the
neft in the alders, and to lay three or four white eggs; but
fometimes builds among the rocks. The food confifts of frogs,
reptiles, and fijh-, and is faid not to be palatable food.
The Germans call it Nachtrab, or Night Raven, from its uncouth,
rough voice, like a perfon (training to vomit §. By the
Ruffians it is called Kwaka, from its cry.
■ t-Jamaica L E N G T H one foot eleven inches. Bill four inches long, and
NIGHT H. dulky; the upper mandible bends a trifle downwards at the
D e s c r i p t io n , point; the colour dulky ; the ridge of the upper part blackifh :
the irides pale ftraw-colour: between the eye, and round it,
bare and greenilh: the head is fomewhat crefted ; the crown
dark brown; each feather is ftreaked down the middle
with ferruginous: neck the fame, but the colours duller arid
paler: chin and throat white: neck feathers pretty loofe : the
* Dec. Rtf. ii. p. ,+6. t Willnghby. . X Brit. Zool.
i 1 met W1!h a 0>ecimen of the female, at Sir Jofiph Banks's, which came from
ma; but in this every feather of the wings was tipped with white, and the
pots were more diftina than in the European fpecies.— Said alfo.by Pernetty to
have been met with in Falkland's IJles. See Foy. auX Maluuin. vol. ii. p. 26.
§ JVillugbby.
upper part of the back darker than the reft; the reft of the
back, and fcapulars, yellowilh brown ; fome of the laft tipped
with white : wing coverts like the back; but the lower order of
them much paler, giving the appearance of a broad bar : all the
coverts white down the lhaft, which fpreads out to the tip,
and forms a longilh triangular fpot: quills the colour of the leflfer
coverts : the primaries and baftard wing tipped with white; the
fecondaries plain: breaft and belly white, ftreaked with obfcure
pale brown: vent white r. legs brown.
This bird I received from Jamaica, where it goes by the name P l a c e .
of Clucking Hen* : it frequents woods, contrary to the generality of
the genus, which haunt morafles : is a fcarce bird, and very fby.
Has a great affinity to the female Night Heron, but is larger.
_ ,'5"
J ^ E N G T H twenty-two inches. Bill ftrait, fhaped like that CALEDONIAN
of the Night Heron, and black : between the eye and bill
bare,, and green: irides yellow: from the nape behind fpring Description,
three long feathers, as in the abovementioned bird: the crown of
the head is black: over the eye, between that and the creft, a.
ftreak of white : the general colour of the plumage ferruginous,
inclining to brown ;. neck the paleft;, the feathers of it loofe on.
the fore part: breaft, belly, and under parts, white :; legs, yellow:,
elaws dufky.
Inhabits New Caledonia f . P l a c e ..
* Dampier obferves,that there are many clocking Hens in the Bay of Campeachy,
and elfewhere'in the Weft Indies, which make a noife like our brood Hens,,
when they have chickens.; but does not determine the fpecies.
t See Cool's Foy. vol. ii. p . 111. pi. 50.— I do not find it three defcribed,
but Dr. Fur fee was.fo obliging as to fupply that defedt.