. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . 165. BUFF-BACKED HERON. 149 GRA LLA TORES. A RDEIDM. PLATE CLXVI. BUFF-BACKED HERON. ARDEA RUSSATA. This rare visitant in Great Britain is an inhabitant of Asiaand Africa; it is found during some parts of the year in themost southern parts of Europe, which border the Mediterra-nean, but not in any numbers; and its habits are stillunknown. The only British killed specimen is in theBritish Museum, and is in immature plumage ; it was killedin Devonshire in 1 805, according to Montagu. Temminckinforms us that this species is common in Ind
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . 165. BUFF-BACKED HERON. 149 GRA LLA TORES. A RDEIDM. PLATE CLXVI. BUFF-BACKED HERON. ARDEA RUSSATA. This rare visitant in Great Britain is an inhabitant of Asiaand Africa; it is found during some parts of the year in themost southern parts of Europe, which border the Mediterra-nean, but not in any numbers; and its habits are stillunknown. The only British killed specimen is in theBritish Museum, and is in immature plumage ; it was killedin Devonshire in 1 805, according to Montagu. Temminckinforms us that this species is common in India and Japan,all of which proves the Buff-backed Heron to be indigenousin the warmer parts of the world. The measurements, which we have taken from the specimenin the British Museum, are as follows :—From the tip of thebeak to the extremity of the tail, twenty inches ; the beak,two inches along the upper ridge. The legs are nearly threeinches and a half long; the unfeathered part above theknee, one inch and three lines; the middle toe, two inchesand three-qu
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