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MALACCA H.
D e s c r i p t io n .
Pla c e .
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+- BLUE.
D e s c r i p t io n .
F ema l e .
Le Crater blase et brun, Bvf. Oif. vij. p, 354.
~ de JVIalac, PI, Enl. p 11.
L E N G T H nineteen inches. Bill dufky, with the ftdes near
the bafe yellow : between the bill and eye, and beyond, bare
and grey : the head and neck are ftreaked brown and white; the
whole of the feathers long, narrow, and Ioofe: ,the back is brown:
wings, under parts of the body, and tail, white: legs yellow
This came from Malacca.
Ardea csernlea, Li«. Syft. i. p. ,7.
Le Crabier bleu, Brif. On- v. p. 484. ±2.— Buf. Oif. vfi. p. 398.
Black, or blue.Gaulding, Sy„. p. ,89. 3«-.Sloan J««.. p. 3j j . pi. s $3.
L 3»—Brown Jam. p. 478.
Blue Heron, Catefb.Car. pi. 76— Ara. Zool. N° 351.
Lev. Mu/,
g I Z E rather lefs than a Crow: weight fifteen ounces : length
near eighteen inches. Bill three inches ; colour blue, yellow-
ifl> beneath : irides yellow: round the eye, and between that and
the bill, bare and yejlowifh : -the head feathers are fomewhat creft-
ed, and thofe of the bread: elongated : the general colour of the
plumage deep blue, inclining to lead-colour : head and neck
changeable purple 5 the back .covered with narrow, long, filky
feathers, hanging near four inches beyond the ta il: legs green.
The female has the head and neck of a dull purple: chin
white, palling in a ftreak half-way down the neck before; the
lower part mixed white and black in ftreaks : the head is fcarcely
crefted : the back lead-coloured ; and the long filky feathers of
it, fo confpicuous in the male, wholly wanting.
Inhabits
Inhabits America. Found in Carolina in fpring: in winter in- Pla ce .
habits Jamaica, and other illands of the Weft Indies. It has alfo
been met with at Otaheite, and other illands of the South Seas,
where it is much refpedted*.
Lé Crabier bleu à Cou brun, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 399! 45.
Héron bleuâtre de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 349. V ar. A.
^ jTH E length of this bird is nineteen inches. The bill is deep
yellow : between the bill and eye bare and reddilh : head and
neck rufous brown : at the hind head fpring two long feathers,
which reach almolt two-thirds down the neck : the reft of the
body, wings, and tail, deep blue: legs brown.
This inhabits Cayenne.
D escription.
P lace.'
g I Z E of the laft : length eighteen inches. Bill two inches and
a half; colour yellow: the bare Ikin between that and the eye
the fame : the irides alfo pale yellow : the head feathers Ioofe,
and fomewhat elongated at the back part: general colour of the
plumage pale blue green : chin and throat white : legs yellow :
claws black.
Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound, where the natives call it Ma-
took.
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V a r . B.
D escription
Pla ce /
4 «« So far are the Otaheitans from eating all kinds of birds, that they have
€t a kind of fuperftitious regard for Herons and Kingftjhersy almoft like that
** which is paid to the Stork, the Robin-red-breaft* Swallow, and other harmlefs
I* familiar birds in EnglandP — For ft. Ob/, p. 2oj.-—Parkin/on talks of a grey Heron
being facred at Etbffoa, p. 70.
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