. An illustrated manual of British birds . actlyresembling tussocks of rushes. The flight is similar to that ofits congener, but the note is more guttural. The food consistsof small mammals, reptiles, fishes and aquatic insects. The adult has the crown and long plumes glossy purplish-black ;cheeks and sides of the neck fawn-colour, streaked with bluish-black;back and wing-coverts dark slate-grey ; elongated filamentous dorsalfeathers, chestnut; tail grey ; neck reddish-buff with a line ofblack down each side, terminating in a mass of chestnut, grey andblack elongated feathers ; under wing-cove
. An illustrated manual of British birds . actlyresembling tussocks of rushes. The flight is similar to that ofits congener, but the note is more guttural. The food consistsof small mammals, reptiles, fishes and aquatic insects. The adult has the crown and long plumes glossy purplish-black ;cheeks and sides of the neck fawn-colour, streaked with bluish-black;back and wing-coverts dark slate-grey ; elongated filamentous dorsalfeathers, chestnut; tail grey ; neck reddish-buff with a line ofblack down each side, terminating in a mass of chestnut, grey andblack elongated feathers ; under wing-coverts chestnut; breast richmaroon-red; thighs rufous; bill yellow. Length from point of billto end of tail about 36 in. ; wing, i425 in. The sexes are alike inplumage, but the male is the larger, ihe young, until their secondmoult, are usually without the occipital crest, as well as the elongatedfeathers at the base of the neck and on the scapulars ; the generalcolour above is rust-ied, and the under T^arts are brownish-white. ;59. THE GREAT WHITE HERON. Ardea alba, Linnaeus. The Great White Heron is a rare visitor to Great Britain, andonly eight examples appear to be authenticated or available forexamination. Three of these were obtained in Yorkshire, and twoof them are in the Museum of the county city; one, from nearWorksop in Nottinghamshire, is in the Foljambe collection, atOsberton; one was shot on the Isis in Oxfordshire, in September1833 ; one, killed in the Frith of Forth on June 9th 1840, is in thecollection of the Earl of Haddington at Tyninghame House; one(with the long back-plumes) shot on Thorney Fen, Cambridgeshire,is now in the possession of Mr. Charles Lsham Strong, of Thorpe Hall,Peterborough; and one, killed at Loch Katrine, Scotland, in Mayor June 1881 or 1882, and recorded in The Scottish Naturalist asa Little Egret, is in the Edinburgh Museum. Others are said to have 360 GREAT WHITE HERON. been observed, but some of them were probably Spoonbills ; w
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