366 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



streaks ; head and neck black, with long drooping 

 pointed feathers from the back of the head ; scapulars 

 long and drooping, rusty yellow. 

 One example has been killed in South Scania in 1833. 



184. A. EGRETTA, L. Hvit Hager. The White Heron. 



Length about 40 in. ; beak from the gape 6 in. ; 

 whole of the body white ; no crest on the back of the 

 head ; naked part of the tibia, 4 in. 



The only authentic Scandinavian specimen was shot at 

 Westeras on the east coast of Sweden in 1856. 



NOCTURNAL. Neck thick and short, covered with broad 

 feathers. 



185. A. STELLAEIS, L. Eordrum. The Bittern. D. F. 



Length 30 in. ; beak 3 in. ; tarsus 4^ in. ; colour all 

 over speckled, and spotted with rusty yellow and black ; 

 neck feathers long ; wings covered with blackish and 

 rusty yellow transverse bands. Little difference in the 

 appearance of the female, except that she is rather 

 smaller than the male. 



I never myself met with the bittern in Sweden, though 

 it is said to be sparingly distributed everywhere up as far as 

 Lodermanland j but I do not think it common. 



186. A. MINUTA, L. Dverg Kordrum. The Little Bittern. 



D. F. 



Length 15 in. ; beak 2 in.; tarsus 1 in. 7 1. ; colour 

 above black-brown, under rusty yellow, with or without 

 longitudinal streaks ; tibia feathered nearly to the 

 knee. 



Only accidental in Scandinavia ; said to breed in the 

 south of Denmark. 



The squacco heron and the night heron are both in- 

 cluded in the Danish fauna. 



Fam. 3. LONGIROSTRES, 



Beak long and thin; hind toe when present always 

 placed high ; wings pointed ; first or second feather longest. 



