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Purple Heron
Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae · Pelecaniformes
Purple Heron
Ardea purpurea
2 plates in 2 folios.
Europe, 1832–37
Plate 274
“Purple Heron”
Britain, 1862–73
Volume IV, plate 21
“Purple Heron”
Printed as the Purple Heron, but showing another bird
Audubon, 1827–38
Plate 256
“Purple Heron”
Shows: Reddish Egret
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