4 2 4 B 1 T T E B N. Class 11. 



unwebbed, failing looie over the bread •, the (ca- 

 pillars of the fame texture, grey itreaked with white. 

 The ridge of the wing white, primaries and baf- 

 tard wing black ; along the fides beneath the wings 

 is a bed of black feathers, very long, foft and ele- 

 gant •, in old times ufed as egrets for the hair, or 

 ornaments to the caps of Knights of the garter -, 

 the bread, belly, and thighs white: the laft darned 

 with yellow. The tail confifts of twelve fhort ci- 

 nereous feathers : the legs are of a dirty green : 

 the toes long, the claws fhort, the inner edge of the 

 middle claw finely ferrated. 

 Female The head of the female is grey: it wants the long 



creft, having only a fhort plume of dufky feathers: 

 the feathers above the breaft fhort ; the fcapulars 

 grey and webbed : the fides grey. This has hi- 

 therto been fuppofed to be a diftincl: fpecies from 

 the former ^ but later obfervations prove them to 

 be the fame. 



174. Bit- Le Butor. Belon av. 192. Garza bionda, odi color d'oro. 



tern. Brrind, Rordump. Gefner Zinan. 112. Scopoli, No. 



an). 215. 125. 



The Myredromble. Turner. Rohrtrummel, Mofskuh. 



Trombone, Terrabufo. Aldr. Kram. 34S. 



a<v> III. 164. Rohrdommel- Frifcb y ll. 205. 



Bittour, Bittern, or Mire- Ardea flellaris. Lin.fyjl. 239. 



drum. Wil orn. 282. Rordrum. Faun. Suec. fp. 



Raii fyn. a<v. 1 00. 164. 



Botaurus, le Butor. Briffon Danis Rordrum. Brunnicb, 



a<v. V. 444. tab. 37. 155* 



Br. Z00L 117. tab. A. I. 



THE bittern is a very retired bird, conceal- 

 ing- itfelf in the midft of reeds and rufhes in 



marfhy 



