JAN., 1909. BIRDS OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN CORY. 



365 



Least Bittern. 



81. Ixobrychus neoxenus (CORY). 



CORY'S LEAST BITTERN.* 



Ardetta neoxena Cory, A. O. U. Check List, 1895, P- 7- 

 The type of this species was taken in the marshes southwest of 



* When I described this bird in 1886, I gave it no English name, simply calling it neoxena 

 (new and strange). The committee of the American Ornithologists' Union have since honored me 

 by giving it my name. 



