422 BOTAURUS LENTIGINOSIS. 



and, with the rest of his collection, is now in the British 

 Museum. 



Dr. Edward Moore, in his Catalogue of the Wading Birds 

 of Devonshire, in the Magazine of Natural History, vol. x., 

 p. 320, says he obtained a specimen, shot at Mottrecombe, 

 near Plymouth, on the 22nd December, 1829. Two or three 

 other instances are recorded by Mr. Yarrel. In the Zoologist 

 for February, 1846, Mr. James Cooper, of Preston, gives an 

 account of one that had been killed about the 8th of Decem- 

 ber, 1845, in the vicinity of Fleetwood, Lancashire. About 

 the middle of October, 1844, one was killed on the estate of 

 Sir William Jardine, in Dumfriesshire. I have not heard of 

 any other instance of the occurrence of this species in Scot- 

 land. Mr. Thompson, in the Annals of Natural History, 

 vol. xvii., published in 1846, records its having been once 

 shot in Ireland, by Mr. W T m. R. Robinson, on the 12th of 

 November, 1845, in a bog, a mile from Armagh. It does 

 not appear that it has ever been met with on the Continent 

 of Europe. 



Young. — When fully fledged, the young have the bill 

 greenish-yellow, with the ridge of the upper mandible brown, 

 darker toward the end ; the bare spaces on the head brownish- 

 yellow ; the feet greenish-brown, the claws light brown. 

 The upper part of the head is reddish-brown, with blackish 

 streaks ; there are the same markings on the sides of the 

 head and neck as in the adult, but the black band is faint ; 

 the fore neck is yellowish-white in its whole length, with 

 longitudinal series of reddish-brown streaks, mottled and 

 margined with darker ; the sides of the neck greyish-yellow, 

 with brown streaks. The other parts nearly as in the adult, 

 but of duller tints, the sides and tibiae more freckled. 



Remarks. — Wagler states that the tail feathers are 

 twelve, but in all the specimens examined by me they are 

 ten. Individuals vary greatly in size, but little in colour. 



