IIKUMNS AND IIITI-KIINS. 1 J'. 



A. Wing under 11-00. 

 i. 1'luraage pure white ; leg* and bill black ; feet yellow. 



197. SNOWY HKHON. 



I*. Tip* of I'rimaricK slate-color; plumage white, sometime* irregu- 

 larly marked with .-luty Mm- . . -J-HI. LITTLE lit IK HKKOX < Im . 

 A Crown uniU-r <-r reddinh brown. 



a. Head and iu-ck r.-.l.li-h l.ruwn; body slate-color. 



198. l:i.i.i-n KIIRKT. 



b. Neck cons|>i> uou*! v xtreaked ; ("xly vurirguti-'l . UNI. A*. KITTKK*. 



C. Crown Maty or slate-blue with sometimes u purpli-li cant, 

 a. Wing-covert* more or less margined with rufous, 



I... I I-IANA lit l:..\. 



4. \Vinjj -oi.v.-rt.H without rufoiu 200. LITTLK Bui t HKKON. 



D. Crown gix<nih or bluiah black. 



a. Wing over 10<0; entire under partM jure wliiti-. 



20'2. HLACK-CKOWXKU NK.IIT HKKO.M. 



b. Wing under 10i. 



A 1 . Wing-coverts green 201. LITTI.K GKKEN IIi:u<>.\. 



c*. Wing-covertH rufous-du-.ttnut and buff. 



<*. Under |>nrt* Kuily. inre or lew streaked . 191. LEAKT Birrnur. 



<. Under parts rufoua-clu^tnut . 191.1. CURY'B LEAST Bimuuf. 

 1 Crown streaked. 



A. Wing under 10-00; upper parts greenish 201. LITTLK C>\:t ** lie no*. 



B. Wing over U o<); upjxjr parts brownish or blackish brown streaked 

 with white. 



a. Upper parto light brown ; outer edge of primaries reddish. 



808. BLACK-CROWNED NIOIIT HERON (Im.). 



6. Back dark brown ; crown nearly black with white streaks ; prima- 

 rieadark flute-color . 203. YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON (Im.). 



190. Botaurua lentiginocns (Jfontay.). AMERK A x Hirrxwr; 

 MARSH HEX. Ad. A glossy black streak on either side of the upper neck; 

 top of the head and back of the neck bluish slate, more or less washed with 

 buffy ; back brown, bordered and irregularly mottled with buffy, and huffy 

 ochraceouA, wing -co verts similarly marked, but the ground color grayer; un- 

 der parts creamy buff, the feathers all widely streaked with bully brown, 

 which in finely speckled with buffy aud narrowly margined by brownish 

 gray. Im. Similar, but the buffy everywhere deeper and more ochracvoua. 

 L^ 88-00; W.. 10-50; Tar., 3-50; B., 8-00. 



J8aay. Temperate North America; breeds but rarely south of Virginia; 

 winters from Virginia southward. 



Washington, rather common W. V., Amr. ' A pi. Long Island, common 

 T. V., Apl. and Sept to Nov. Sing Sing, rare S. K., A pi. 11 to (X-t. 5. Cam- 

 not common 8. R., Apl. 15 to N..V. 



A'ttt, of grasses, etc., on the ground in marshes. Egg*, three to five, pale 

 utf, 1-90 x 1-46. 



The Hittcrn makes its home in extensive grassy meadows with 

 plenty of water, but in the Mason of migration may be found and 

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