4».
STRIATED H.
D e sc r ip t ion.
P la ce .
49.
WATTLED H.
PL. LXXVIII.
D e sc rip tion.
P la ce .
Ardea ftriata, Lin. Syfi, i. p. 10,
Heron of Guiana» Bancr. Guian. p. 171.
I Z E of the common Heron. Bill ftrait, comprefled, furrowed
on the Tides: head flightly crefted ; crown black: hind part
of the neck and back hoary : fore part of the neck ferruginous :
wings brown : fecondaries black at the points.
This is Bancroft’s defcription. Linnaus fays, that the back in
his bird is hoary, and ftriated; and that the fecondaries are white
on the margins, at the tip.
Inhabits Guiana and Surinam: faid alfo to be at Afirachan *■ in
March.
Q I Z E of the Stork: length five feet fix inches. Bill red and
carunculated for one third next the bafej the reft of its
length dufky black : round the eye bare and red: irides pale-red :.
top of the head blue grey j. the reft of the head and neck white:
under the chin are two appendages like wattles, covered with
white feathers, as the reft of the neck : the back and wings are
blue grey : on the back hang fome long narrow feathers, as
in many other Herons : the quills are black, and about even
with the ta il: breaft, belly, and under parts, black : legs dufky
blue grey.
Inhabits Africa, but is not a common bird. One of them met
with tame, in the Company’s gardens, at the Cape of Good Hope,.
from which a drawing was taken, now in the colledtion of Sir
J . Banks.
* Decouv. Ruff, iu p. 146,
Ardea major, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 256. 12.— Scop. Ann. i. N° i i f .—Kram, EL
p. 346. N° 4 — Fri/cb. t. J99.
50.
■ {-COMMON H.
Le Heron hupe, Brif. Orn. v. p. 396. 2. pi. 3;.— Btf. Oif. vii. p. 342.—
PI. Enl. 75;.
Common Heron, Rail Sya. p. 98. A. 1.— Wiil. Ora. 277. pi, 49.
Crefted Heron, Albia, i. pi. 67.— Br. Zool. N° 173.— Ar8. Zool. N° 343.
M a l e .
Ardea cinerea, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 2 56. IT j— Faun. Suec. 165.— Scop, Ann. 1,
N° l l f .—Brun. p. 156»—Muller, p. 22.— Frifcb. t. 198.
Le Heron, Brif. Orn, v. p. 592. 1. pi. 34,-^-Buf Oif. vii. p. 342. pi* 19.
— PI, Enl. 787.
Common Heron, Albint iii. pi. 78.— Br, Zool, N® 173. pi. 61.— Ar£l. Zool.
N° 343-
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf
F ema l e .
H I S is a beautiful though common fpecies.
The Male weighs about three pounds and a half: length
three feet three inches. Bill fix inches long, colour dufky, beneath
at the bafe yellowifh: round the eye greenifh, and bare of
feathers j irides yellow : forehead and crown white ; Tides of it
over the eye black: all the feathers of the crown long, two in
particular being eight inches in length ; on the whole forming a
moft elegant creft * : the neck white; the fore part of it marked
with a double row of black fpots : wing coverts blueifii grey :
outer edges of the wing white: baftard wing, and greater quills,
black : middle of the back almoft bare, covered by the fcapulars,
which are grey and white, of a loofe texture, long and narrow :
* Thefe are ufed as ornaments in the Eaft, and bear a confiderable price. We
believe that this appendage is found only in males of a full age, or perhaps very
old birds.
D escr IPTfON,
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