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Order HERODTONES. Herons; Storks; Ibises; etc. 

 Suborder IBIDES. Spoon-bills and Ibises. 



Family IBIDID.E. Ibises. 



Long bills; rather short legged waders; food, tish and other aquatic animals. 



Genus PLEGADIS Kaup. 



7 7-lJ^6-(649). Ples'adis aiitumnalis (iEfasseZg.). Glossy Ibis. 



Very rare; occasional straggler; one Michigan specimen reported in the catalogue 

 of the Kent Scientific Institute by E. L. Moseley; "killed Oct. 6, 1884, on Saginaw Bay " 

 ( N. A. Eddy O. and O., Vol. X, p. 9). 



Suborder HERODII. Herons; Egrets; Bitterns; etc. 



Family ARDEIDiE. Herons; Bitterns; etc. 

 Feed on fish, frogs and toads, etc.; about marshes; not usually game birds. 



Subfamily BOTAURINiE. Bitterns. 

 Gends BOTAURUS Heebmann. 



Bittern, reduced. 



78-l90-(6<J6). Botaurus lentiginosus [Montag.]. * American Bittern; Stake 

 Driver; Shytepoke; Indian Hen; "Thunder Pumper; "Barrel Maker;"' 

 Plum Pudden. 

 Common; throughout the state; April to August; "common in Monroe Co.'' 

 (Jerome Trombley); "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); "common at Sault Ste. Marie" 

 (A. H. Boies); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); reported from Kent Co. and Ann Arbor; 

 breeds; nests, but not in colonies, on the ground, usually in marshes and often sur- 

 rounded by water; " breeds in great numbers about marshes in Shiawassee county" 

 (Dr. W. C. Brownell). occasionally in meadows; nest elaborate; eggs three to seven. 

 drab or mud color; the males make as a love note a sound like "plum pudden," also 

 another like a ringing or pumping sound, as if pounding a barrel (see article by 

 Bradford Torrey in " The Auk" for January 1889); a very common bird in nearly all 

 parts of Michigan; destroys field mice. For interesting articles on this bird by Dr. 



