Plate VII. Pages 93, 94. 



AMEKICAN BITTERN. 

 Length, 28 00 inches. A black streak on neck; body brown and buff; 

 primaries slate-color. 



SORA. 

 Length, 8-50 inches. Adult, upper parts olive-brown, black, and white; 

 throat and face black, breast slate, belly white, flanks black and white. 

 Young, similar, but face, throat, and breast whitewashed with brownish. 



