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ORDER HERODIONES. HERONS; STORKS; IBISES: ETC. 

 SUBORDER IBIDES. SPOON-BILLS AND IBISES. 



FAMILY IBIDID^. IBISES. 



Long bills; rather short legged waders; food, fish and other aquatic animals. 

 GENUS PLEGADIS KAUP. 



77-lS6-(64:9). Plegadis autumn alis (Hasselq.). GLOSSY IBIS. 



Very rare; occasional straggler; one Michigan specimen reported in the catalogue 

 of the Kent Scientific Institute by E. L. Moseley; "killed Oct. 6, 1884, on Saginaw Bay " 



(N. A. Eddy O. and O., Vol. X, p. 9). 

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SUBORDER HERODII. HERONS; EGRETS; BITTERNS; ETC. 



FAMILY ARDEID^E. HERONS; BITTERNS; ETC. 

 Feed on fish, frogs and toads, etc.; about marshes; not usually game birds. 



SUBFAMILY BOTAURIN^. BITTERNS. 

 GENUS BOTAUKUS HEEBMANN. 



Bittern, reduced. 

 78-190-(6f>6). Botaurus lentigiiiosns (Montag.). * AMERICAN BITTERN; STAKE 



DRIVER; SHYTEPOKE; INDIAN HEN; ''THUNDER PUMPER; "BARREL MAKER;" 



PLUM PUDDEN. 



Common; throughout the state; April to August; "common in Monroe Co." 

 (Jerome Trombley); "Mackinac Island" (S. E. White); "common at Sault Ste. Marie" 

 (A. H. Boies); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); reported from Kent Co. and Ann Arbor; 

 breeds; nests, but not in colonies, on the ground, usually in marshes and often sur- 

 rounded by water; " breeds in great numbers about marshes in Shiawassee county " 

 (Dr. W. C. Brownell), occasionally in meadows; nest elaborate; eggs three to seven, 

 drab or mud color; the males make as a love note a sound like "plum pudden," also 

 another like a ringing or pumping sound, as if pounding a barrel (see article by 

 Bradford Torrey in " The Auk" for January 1889); a very common bird in nearly all 

 parts of Michigan; destroys field mice. For interesting articles on this bird by Dr. 



