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GRALLATORES. BOTAURUS. BITTERN. 



Old of both 



Synonyms 

 of young, 

 different 

 ages. 



LITTLE BITTERN. 



BOTAURUS MINUTUS. 

 PLATE VI.* Fig. 1. 2. 



Ardea minuta, Linn. Syst. 1. 240. 26. B Lath. Ind. 2. 683. 27 Steph. 



Shaw's ZooL 11. 589. pi. 44. Flem. Brit. Anim. 1. 97. 6. 

 Ardeola, Briss. Orn. 5. 49?. 46. t. 40. f. 1. 

 Le Blongios de Suisse, Buff. Ois. 7- 395. 

 Heron Blongios, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 584. 

 Kleiner Reiner, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 71. 

 Little Bittern, Br. Zool. app. 663. pi. 8 Lath. Syn. Sup. 235. Mont. 



Orn. Diet, and Sup. Pult. Cat. Dorset BewicWs Br. Birds, 2. pi. 51. 



^Little Heron, Shaw's ZooL 



Ardea Danubialis, Lath. Ind. 2. 681. 21. 

 Botaurus striatus, Briss. 5. 454. 27. 

 Le Butor brun raye', Buffi Ois. 7. 4-24. 

 Rayed Bittern, Lath. Syn. 5. 61. 21. 

 Ardea soloniensis, Lath. Ind. 2. 681. 19. 

 Botaurus rufus, Briss. 5. 458. 29. 

 Le Butor Roux, Buff. Ois. 7. 425. 

 ^Rufous Bittern, Lath. Syn. 5. 60. 19. 



Pao vivc i AL, Boonk, or Long Neck. 



visitant. 



THIS is one of the smallest of the Ardeada, scarcely equal- 

 ling, in bulk of body, the Spotted Crake, or the Water Rail. 

 Very rare In England it is a very rare visitant ; not more than five or 

 six having come under the notice of our naturalists. Three 

 of these MONTAGU mentions, as having been killed in Devon- 

 shire, in the course of the summer of 1808 ; another is re- 

 corded by Dr FLEMING, as killed at Sunda, one of the Ork- 

 ney Islands, in the winter of 1805 ; and PENNANT has intro- 

 duced this bird into the Appendix to his British Zoology, 

 in consequence of an adult specimen, which was shot as it 

 perched upon a tree on the banks of the Severn, at Shrews- 

 bury. To this list may be added another instance, in which 

 a Little Bittern was killed at Blagdon, in Northumberland, 

 the seat of Sir M. W. RIDLEY, Baronet, in May 1810 ; and 

 figured by BEWICK, in his Supplement to the British Birds. 



