. An illustrated manual of British birds . by i3 food consists of cattle ticks {Acari), beetles and other insectsturned up by the plough, grasshoppers, locusts, and frogs. Thenote may be syllabled as gi-a/i. In Egypt this species is often madeto do duty for the Sacred Ibis with the tourist, and is to someextent respected by the peasants. The adult in summer has the crown, nape, occipital and dorsalplumes and those hanging from the lower neck in front, rufous-buff; the rest of the plumage white, a ■ trifle creamy on the wing-coverts ; lores, orbits, and irides golden-pink; beak reddish a
. An illustrated manual of British birds . by i3 food consists of cattle ticks {Acari), beetles and other insectsturned up by the plough, grasshoppers, locusts, and frogs. Thenote may be syllabled as gi-a/i. In Egypt this species is often madeto do duty for the Sacred Ibis with the tourist, and is to someextent respected by the peasants. The adult in summer has the crown, nape, occipital and dorsalplumes and those hanging from the lower neck in front, rufous-buff; the rest of the plumage white, a ■ trifle creamy on the wing-coverts ; lores, orbits, and irides golden-pink; beak reddish at thebase, yellow at the tip; legs yellowish-red. Length about 20 in. ;wing 95 in. The female is rather smaller than the male, andher plumes are less developed. After the autumn moult, and untilthe following spring, the elongated buff feathers are wanting, andthe bird is almost pure white. In the young bird the skin aboutthe base of the bill is very dark; the plumage shows little buff-colour, and the legs are dull olive. ^:. 365. THE SQUACCO ralloides, Scopoli. More than forty examples of tliis little Heron have been takenin the British Islands since 1775, when a specimen was killedin Wiltshire. The other counties visited by it are Hants (and theIsle of Wight), Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall (about a dozeninstances), Brecon, Salop, Notts, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire,Yorkshire and Cumberland. In Scotland one has been shot on theGlasgow Canal, and another at Dalmahoy. In Ireland, three havebeen obtained in cos. Cork and Waterford, one each in Kerryand Kings County, and one in Londonderry on November 23rd1881 : an unusually late date. With very few exceptions, hoAever,these visitors have arrived in spring or summer, and have been inimmature plumage. On the Continent the Squacco Heron is only a straggler to Poland,Northern Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and the north ofFrance ; but it is not uncommon in the valley of the Loire, whereI believe ic bree
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