Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 



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Least Bittern. 



81. Ixobrychus neoxenus (Cory). 

 Cory's Least Bittern. '•= 

 Ardeita neoxena Cory, A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 70. 

 The type of this species was taken in the marshes southwest of 



* When I described this bird in iS86, I gave it no English name, simply calling it neoxena 

 (new and strange;. The committee of the American Ornithologists' Union have since honored me 

 by giving it my name. 



