Among these the prevailing species are egrets, herons, sandlarks, and plovers, while in the jungle great numbers of the pea-fowl are to be met with at all seasons of the year.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
With them were gallinules and small green herons, and across the pink mist of lotos blossoms just beyond, three egrets drew three lines of purest white-and vanished.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
On the other side of the gardens, in aristocratic isolation, was a colony of stately American egrets, dainty and graceful.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe