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is very plentiful. There are two skins in the British 

 Museum from tlie Azores. 



Botaurus stellaris. Bittern. 



Ardea stellaris Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 144 — 

 Type locality : Sweden. 



Tlie Bittern is a Rare Visitor. Very few records are 

 forthcoming. 



Webb and Berthelot (Orn. Canarienne^ p. 3G) and later 

 Bolle (J. f. O. 1855, p. 176) mention it in their lists as an 

 accidental wanderer. 



Meade- Waldo saw one which had been killed at Laguna 

 and heard of anotiier (Ibis, 1893, p. 199). 



Cabrera shot one at Laguna (Catalogo, p. 63) which was 

 in his collection, and is doubtless the bird Meacle-Waldo saw. 



Range. The Common Bittern breeds throughout Europe 

 south of 60° N. lat., and extends across Asia to Japan, the 

 birds from tlie higher latitudes migrating south in winter 

 to north Africa. It has been recorded once from the 

 Azores. 



Botaurus lentiginosus. American Bittern. 



Ardea lentiginosa Montagu, Suppl. to Ornith. Diet. 1813 

 [no pagination] — Type locality : Dorset, England. 



This is a Rare Visitor. 



Cabrera had a specimen in his collection killed at the 

 Madre del Agua near Laguna (Catalogo, p. 63). Probably 

 this same bird is recorded by Polatzek as having been found 

 dead near Laguna in Tenerife ; he adds that it is now in 

 the museum there (Orn. Jahrb. 1909, p. 129). 



Range. The American Bittern inhabits IN orth America ; 

 about forty examples have been procured in the Bi'itish 

 Isles, from which curiously enough the type specimen was 

 originally described. In winter it ranges to tiic West Indies 

 and central America. 



Single examples have been procured in the Azores and in 

 Guernsey. 



