6o.
V ar. A.
BLACK CRESTED
WHITE H.
Description.
Place«
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SNOWY H.
Description.
Female.
Place.
62.
SACRED H.
Description.
Le Heron blanc a calotte noire, Buf. Oif, vii. p. 380.
■ 1'■ hupe de Cayenne, PI, Enl. 907.
* I *H I S meafures two feet in length; and the plumage is totally
white, except a.patch of black on the top of the head;
the hind part of which has a pendent creft, compofed of fix long
narrow feathers.
It is faid to frequent the rivers of Guiana, and is a rare fpecies.
Ardeanivea, N. C.Petr.xv. p. 458. t. 17.
'T ’H E length exceeds two feet. Bill dout, ftrait, three inches
and a half long, and black: Ikin round the eyes of a yel-
lowifh blue : plumage.in general white: the head is fmooth, but
on the neck are fome feathers Handing out; and thofe of the
lower part hanging over the bread : back terminated with very
long narrow feathers of a yellowilh white: legs black: toes
faffron-colour : claws black.
The female is lefs, and the neck and back feathers fhorter.
This is found about the river Don in fpring, coming from the
Black Sea*-, and returns again to the fouth in autumn. It builds
the ned in high trees. I have feen a fpecimen of this bird
which came from China.
^ IZ E of the little Egret? length two feet three inches. Gene-
ralcolour of the plumage white: bill four inches long, dufky
brown : on the middle of the crown a few obfcure dufky dreaks
* Probably alfo from Egypt, Arabia, or Greece.—Dec, Ruff", i, p. 164.
down
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down the fhafts of fome of the feathers: feveral of thofe of
the back, wing, and tail coverts, marked in the fame manner:
fcapulars dafhed with black : greater quills more or lefs dufky
at the tips : the tail feathers marked with dufky down the fhafts,
from the tip, an inch and a half upwards; except the outer feather,
which is plain : legs yellow.
Inhabits Otaheite, and the neighbouring ides, where it is held
facred.
In the collection of Sir Jofeph Banks.
Place.
I T H the above is one not far different. The crown of a
plain white: fcapulars fome white, fome black ; on the
fore part of the neck fome loofe long feathers, black and white
mixed, hanging over the bread; and fome others of the fame loofe
texture, and mixed colours, falling on the tail: the wing coverts
have likewife fome black feathers intermixed : the quills plain
white ; and the tail the fame, except one feather wholly black:
legs black.
62.
V ar. A.
Description.
Ardea iEquino&ialis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 240. 25.
Le Heron blanc de la Caroline, Brif. On. v. p. 43c. 18.
■ Le Crabier blanc a bee rouge, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 401.
Little White Heron, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 77,—Arc,. Zaol. N° 345.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
63.
-I- LITTLE
WHITE H.
rJP H I S meafures eighteen inches in length. The bill is two Description
inches and three quarters long, and red ; as is the bare
fpace between the bill and e ye: irides yellow: the plumage
univerfally white : legs green.
Inhabits