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LITTLE BITTERN. 



EOOJfK. EUFOUS BITTERX. LITTLE HEROK. 

 LITTLE BITTERN HEROJST. LOSTG-^ECK. 



Ardea minuta, LIXN^US. LEACH. 



" danubialis, GMELIX. 



" sofoniensis, GMELIN. 



Ardeola minuta, PRINCE BUONAPARTE. 



Cancrophagus minutus, KAUP. 



Butor minutus, SwAlNSON. 



Botaurus pusillus, BREHM. 



" minutus, BOIK. EYTON. 



Ardea A Heron. Minuta Small minute. 



THIS bird belongs to the southern parts of the European, 

 continent Turkey, Italy, Greece, France, Spain, and Holland. 

 In Sweden it has been met with, though but very rarely: 

 in Switzerland it is annually observed, and some few, according 

 to M. Necker, stay to breed. In Asia it is plentifully dis- 

 tributed about the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; in Persia, 

 Syria, and Arabia. In Africa it is also met with in Barbary, 

 and so far south as the Cape of Good Hope; likewise in 

 Madeira. 



In this county, Yorkshire, one was procured near Eedcar, 

 which is on the sea-coast, on the 20th. of September, 1852; 

 one at Birdsall, near Malton, the seat of Henry Willoughby, 

 Esq., about the year 1842; one at Thorpe, near Burlington, 

 the seat of A. W. Bosville, Esq.; and one near Doncaster. 

 In Dorsetshire, one in 1851, at Preston, near Weymouth, 

 and one at Lytchet Maltravers v A young bird was bought 

 in the Leadenhall Market, London, and is now in the col- 

 lection of British Birds in the British Museum. One was 

 shot in April, 1852, in the parish of Oving, in the county 

 of Sussex, as Mr. George Jackson informs me. Another was 

 run down and captured by some men, in the neighbourhood 

 of Plymouth, a few years since, in the spring; one in 



