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Definition of Little egret
1. Noun. Old World egret.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Little Egret
Literary usage of Little egret
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THE little egret. Ardea garzetta. THE little egret is one of the rarest stragglers
to the British Islands, and some of the records of its reported ..."
2. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"little egret HERON. ARDEA GARZETTA, Linn. PLATE V. Ardea garzetta, Linn. ...
little egret, Br. Zool App. t. 7—Arct. ZooL 2. No. 347—Lath. Syn. 5. p. 90. 59. ..."
3. Birds of Great Britain and Ireland: Parts 1-4 by William Jardine (1866)
"The little egret or Egret Heron, Selby and Yarrell. THE close alliance of the
Egrets, to each other, has caused a much wider geographical range to be given ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"Laurenson, having mentioned it to me under the name of the little egret, I asked
him to forward the remains. These were much dilapidated, the head and neck ..."
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