126 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Wales, and Ireland, and in Norfolk even down to 1868, while in 1886 

 a young one with down still upon it was found there, and in 1911 

 it was proved to breed (E. L. Turner, Brit. B., v, pp. 90-97). To 

 Scotland irregular visitor, but has occurred most parts. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Temperate portions of Palsearctic region 

 generally, in Europe north to Scandinavia, and migratory, in winter 

 in north-west Africa, Mediterranean countries and India. Replaced 

 by closely -allied subspecies in America and south Africa. 



269. Botaurus stellaris lentiginosus (Mont.) THE AMERICAN 

 BITTERN. 



ARDEA LENTIGINOSA Montagu, Orn. Diet., Suppl., text and plate (1813 



Piddletovvn in Dorsetshire). 



Botaurus lentiginosus (Montagu), Yarrell, iv, p. 213 ; Saunders, p. 385. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Very rare vagrant. England and 

 Wales. About seventeen : Scilly Isles, Cornwall (2), Devon (2), 

 Dorset., Hants. (2), Sussex (2), Kent (2), Yorks. (2), Lanes., Anglesey 

 and Pembroke. Scotland. Seven : Dumfries. (2), Ayr., Argyll., 

 Aberdeen, Elgin, Caithness. Ireland. Fifteen : Munster (6), 

 Leinster (6), Ulster (3). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. North and Central America. 



[NOTE. A specimen of the GREEN HERON, Butorides virescens virescens 

 (L.), inhabiting eastern North America and wintering from West Indies south- 

 wards, is said to have bean shot in Cornwall, Oct., 1889 (Saunders, p. 386).] 



PKCENICOPTERUS ROSEUS 



270. Phcenicopterus roseus Pall. THE FLAMINGO. 



PHOENICOPTERTJS ROSEUS Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., n, p. 207 (1827 



S. Russia, Caspian). 



Phcenicopterus roseus Pallas, Yarrell, iv, p. 244 ; Saunders, p. 395. 



DISTRIBUTION. England and Wales. Very rare vagrant. Obtained 

 some fifteen times, but some were certainly escaped birds, and most 

 recorded in recent years are open to that suspicion. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. From the basin of Mediterranean (Spain, 

 south France) to west Siberia, Lake Baikal and Persian Gulf, 

 Africa and India to Ceylon, but apparently not breeding in the 

 tropics, excepting on Cape Verde Islands, a group inhabited by a 

 number of other Palsearctic forms. 



CYGNUS CYGNUS 



271. Cygnus cygnus (L.) THE WHOOPER SWAN. 



ANAS CYGNUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 122 (1758 Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Cygnus musicits Bechstein, Yarrell, iv, p. 308 ; Saunders, p. 413. 



