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the neck and the fides of it are covered with loofe blue feathers,
hanging longer and loofe on the bread : from the lower part of
the back are long (lender feathers, which hang loofe, and reach the
end of the ta il: on the fides of the head, and juft above the eye,
the parts are white, pafling a little way in a line on each fide of
the neck : legs yellow.
This is a mod beautiful fpecies, and inhabits Cayenne, One of
thefe, which I fuppofe to be a female, is in the colleftion of
Colonel Davies. The bill is five inches and three quarters long,
and blackilh ; the bafe of the under mandible pale: the crown,
creft, and hind part of the neck, blueifti aih-colour: chin white :
fides of the neck, as far as the middle, fine rufous; down the
middle of this a beautiful white and rufous line, bounded on
each fide with black: the bread covered with long, loofe, black-
ifh feathers: thofe on the back part o f the neck black, but
ftreaked down the middle of the lhaft with white : the upper
parts of the body, wings, and tail, fine green, like that of a
Duck’s head, and glolfy j the under parts deep rufous: quills
black: tail brown. I have never feen the male3 but by Buffon’s
defcription it mud be ftill more beautiful than th<c female, and is
certainly the moft elegant of the genus.
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COCOI H.
Ardea Cocoi, Lin. Syjl. i. p, 237. 14..
Le Heron hope de Cayenne, Brif. Orn. v. p. 400. 3.
Le Soco, Buf. Qtf. vii. p. 379.
Cocoi, Rati Syu. p. too. 15.— Will, Orn. p. 284. pi. 51.
Blue Heron, Albin. iii. pi. 79 ?
D e sc r ip t ion. *JpHIS is a large fpecies, in length above three feet. The bill
of a greenifh yellow : irides of a gold-colour : top of the
head
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head cinereous ; the Tides of the upper part black ; the feathers
of the hind head are cinereous, very long and narrow, forming a
handfome creft, being about five inches and a half in length * :
between the bill and eye bare and cinereous: cheeks, throat, and
neck, white; the fore part of the laft marked with a double row
o f longifh dulky (pots ; the feathers'of the lower part very long,
and hang over the bread: the reft of the bird fine pale afh-co-
lour: on the back the feathers are long, and narrow, and hang
down behind, like many of this genus: the legs are aih-colour.
Inhabits Brafiland Cayenne. Said to be pretty good eating in
the rainy feafon, at which time it is fat.
Ardea rufa, Scop. Ann. i. N° 119.—Kram. El. p. 347. N” 6.
J ^ E S S than the common Heron. Bill feven inches long: from
the eye .to the nape on each fide a black ftreak : head, neck,
belly, quills, and tail, black: bread rufous: temples and thighs
ferruginous: lower part of the neck whitifh, marked with longitudinal
brownilh fpots: the upper part of the neck, the back,
and wings, cinereous brown : legs brown.
Inhabits the Aufirian dominions.
g I Z E fmall. Bill long, pale yellow: upper part of the plu-
mage brown, dafhed with a paler brown; under parts the
fame, but more dilute : quills and tail black: legs green.
Inhabits China, and called Soy-ie. The defcription taken from
a colledtion of Chinefe drawings.
* Only two of the feathers are of this length.— Willugbhj.
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RUFOUS H.
Description.
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CHINESE H.
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