. A general synopsis of birds . oary, and flriated ; and that the fecondaries are whiteon the margins, at the tip. Inhabits Guiana and Surinam : faid alfo to be at Aftrachan* irvMarch. 49. WATTLED H. PL. LXXVIII. Description. Place. QIZE of the Stork: length five feet fix inches. Bill red andcarunculated for one third next the bafe; the reft of its-length dufky black : round the eye bare and red : irides pale red :top of the head blue grey; the reft of the head and neck white:.under the chin are two appendages like wattles, covered withwhite feathers, as the reft of the neck : the back and win
. A general synopsis of birds . oary, and flriated ; and that the fecondaries are whiteon the margins, at the tip. Inhabits Guiana and Surinam : faid alfo to be at Aftrachan* irvMarch. 49. WATTLED H. PL. LXXVIII. Description. Place. QIZE of the Stork: length five feet fix inches. Bill red andcarunculated for one third next the bafe; the reft of its-length dufky black : round the eye bare and red : irides pale red :top of the head blue grey; the reft of the head and neck white:.under the chin are two appendages like wattles, covered withwhite feathers, as the reft of the neck : the back and wings areblue grey : on the back hang fome long narrow feathers, many other Herons: the quills are black, and about evenwith the tail: breaft, belly, and under parts, black : legs dufkyblue grey. Inhabits Africa, but is not a common bird. One of them metwith tame, in the Companys gardens, at the Cape of Good Hope,from which a drawing was taken, now in the collection of SirJ. Banks. * Decouv. Rujf. ii. p. 146, Ardea 7/A/^; mm, HERON. 83 Ardea major, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 256. iz.—Scop. Ann. i. N° 117.—Kram. El. 50. p. 346. N° ^.-Fnfch. t. 199. f-COMMON H. Le Heron hupe, Brif. Qrn. v. p. 396. 2. pi. —Buf. Oif. vii. p. 342.— Male. PL Enl. Heron, Raii Syn. p. 98. A. I.—Will. Orn. 277. pi. Heron, Albin, i. pi. 67.—Br. Zool. N° lj^.—ArtJ. Zool. N° 343. Ardea cinerea, Liu. Syfl. i. p. 256. 11.—Faun. Suec. 165.—Scop. Ann, i. Female. N° 117.—Brun. p. 156.—Midler, p. 22.—FriJch. t. Heron, 5r/y; Oru. v. p. 392. 1. pi. Oif. vii. p. 342. pi. 19. —PL Enl. Heron, Albin, iii. pi. 78.—Br. Zool. N 173. pi. 61.—Arcl. Zool. N° 343- £r. M«/: £«*>. Ma/: H I S is a beautiful though common Male weighs about three pounds and a half: length feet three inches. Bill fix inches long, colour dufky, be-neath at the bafe yellowifh: round the eye greenhh, and bare offeathers;
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