AMERICAN BITTERN. 



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GRALLATORES. 



ARDEID.T.. 



THE AMERICAN BITTERN, 



Artlea lentiginosa. Freckled Heron, Mont. Suppl. Ornith. Diet. 



„ ,, „ „ Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 23. 



Botanrus Mokoho, American Bittern, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 34. 

 Ardea lentiginosa, „ „ Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 191. 



Botaurus lentiginosus, „ „ Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xx. 



Ardea lentiginosa, H^ron lentigineux, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 381. 



The bird from which Colonel Montagu's description and 

 figure were taken was sliot by Mr, Cunningham, in the parish 

 of Piddletown, in Dorsetshire, in the autumn of 1804. 



Mr. Cunningham stated, that when in pursuit of some 

 Pheasants, among the high banks, between the broad ditches 



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