. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . J 6 BRITISH BIRDS. OF THE HERON. Some ornithologlfts have feparated this tribe fromthe Cranes and the Storks, and from the differenceobfervable in the conformation of their parts, con-fider them as a diftinft genus : others, preferringthe Linnaean fyftem, clafs the whole together, andthus make them amount to above eighty diftin£lfpecies, befides varieties, widely diflributed over va-rious parts of the globe, all differing in their fize,figure, and plumage, and with talents adapted totheir various places of refidence, or their peculiar
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . J 6 BRITISH BIRDS. OF THE HERON. Some ornithologlfts have feparated this tribe fromthe Cranes and the Storks, and from the differenceobfervable in the conformation of their parts, con-fider them as a diftinft genus : others, preferringthe Linnaean fyftem, clafs the whole together, andthus make them amount to above eighty diftin£lfpecies, befides varieties, widely diflributed over va-rious parts of the globe, all differing in their fize,figure, and plumage, and with talents adapted totheir various places of refidence, or their peculiarpurfuits. But notwithflanding the difference in thecolours of their plumage and their bills, the man-ners of all are nearly the fame, as is alfo their cha-rader, which is fligmatized with cowardice and ra-pacity, indolence, and yet infatiable hunger: theyare, indeed, exceffively voracious and deflrudive;but from the meagre-looking form of their bodies,to an inaccurate obferver, the greatefl abundancemight feem infufficient for their BRITISH BIRDS, 7>1
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