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with white. The head and upper part of the neck arc of a 

 rufty, brownifh-black. The flioulders, hack and wings, a glofly 

 black, and deep grey, variegated ; the throat and bread fnow- 

 white, edged with a pale red. The tail is iliort, foruewhat above 

 two inches, compofed of twelve feathers. The legs, feet, and 

 claws, are black ; the outer fore-toe joined at the bafe to the 

 middle one. It lives upon infects. It makes its neft in the con- 

 cave parts and hollows of large rocks, with clay, mofs, and the 

 deciduous leaves of trees, of a globofe figure. There was lately 

 one on the fhadowy dropping rock at 



20. The Bittern or Bittour (x) is frequent about mofTcs. It is 

 very near as large as the common Hern/fiaw, the beak ftrong at 

 the bafe, ftraight, convex, fharp at the edges, and gradually ta- 

 pering to an acute point ; the tongue triangular, and fhort ; the 

 mouth wide, and a black fpot at each angle. The crown of the 

 head is fomewhat deprefied, and adorned with black ; the throat 

 and fides of the neck a reddifh-brown, variegated with black, 

 in narrow, tranfverfe lines ; long feathers upon the neck and 

 breaft, black in the middle ; the exterior part of the thighs 

 fpotted with black. The plumage of the back and wings is 

 beautiful, being cinereous, black, and a pale red, in elegant 

 variegations. The legs are robuft, long, and naked above mid- 

 way up the thighs ; the toes armed with fharp claws, the middle 



(x) Ardea ftellaris. 7J7//. Orn. p. 207. t. 50. 52. Raj. Av. p. roo. n. n. Ardea ver- 

 tice nigro; peflore pallido maculis longitudinalibus nigricamibus. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 48. 

 n. 134. Stellaris. Afterias. THE BITTORN. Cbarlet. Av. p. no. n. 5. fequemi obferva- 

 tione. 



" Hoc fibi peculiare habet, quod off era Arteria in ea tota continua eft, Larynx nulla. Undo 

 " vox ejus incondita, cui fimiles illi foni dicuntur, quos /Jafiixa,- vocat ARIST. in PROBLEM. 

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