APPENDIX. 



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VIII. The LITTLE BITTERN. 



Ardeola (le Blongios) Brif- Moofs-kuh.) Kram. 348. 



/on a<v. V. 497. tab. 40. Boonk or long Neck. S&axv's 



Jig. I. Trawls y 255. 



Ardea vertice dorfoque ni- Ard#a Minuta. Lin. fyft. 240. 



gris, collo antice et alarum Kleiner Rohrdommel. Frijcb, 



te&ricibus lutefcentibus . II. 206. 207. 



(Stauden Ragerl , Kleine Ed--w. av. 275. 



THIS fpecies was fhot as it perched on one of 

 the trees in the Quarry or public' walks in 

 Shrew/bury, on the banks of the Severn ; it is fre- 

 quent in many other parts of Europe, but the only 

 one we ever heard of in England. 



The length to the tip of the tail was fifteen inch- 

 es, to the end of the toe twenty. The bill to the 

 corners of the mouth two inches and a half long, 

 dufky at the point; the fides yellow; the edge jag- 

 ged : the bulk of the body not larger than that of 

 a fieldfare. 



The top of the head, the back, and tail were 

 black, gloried with an obfcure green : the neck is 

 very long, the forepart of which, the breaft and 

 thighs, were of a buff color : the belly and vent-fea- 

 thers white : the hind-part of the neck bare of fea- 

 thers, but covered with thofe growing on the fide 

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