Old of both 
sexes. 
Synonyms 
of young, 
different 
ages. 
Very rare 
visitant. 
36 GRALLATORES. BOTAURUS. BIrtTeERN. 
LITTLE BITTERN. 
Boraurvus MINUTUS. 
PLATE VI* Fig. 1. 2. 
‘Ardea minuta, Linn. Syst. 1. 240. 26. B.—Lath. Ind. 2. 683. 27.—Steph. 
Shaw’s Zool. 11. 589. pl. 44.—Flem. Brit. Anim. 1. 97. 6. 
Ardeola, Briss. Orn. 5. 497. 46. t. 40. f. 1. 
Le Blongios de Suisse, Buff: Ois. 7. 395. 
Heron Blongios, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 584. 
Kleiner Reiher, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 71. 
Little Bittern, Br. Zool. app. 663. pl. 8.—Lath. Syn. Sup. 235.—Moni. 
Orn. Dict. and Sup.— Put. Cat. Dorset.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. pl. 51. 
Little Heron, Shaw’s Zool. 
Ardea Danubialis, Lath. Ind. 2. 681. 21. 
Botaurus striatus, Briss. 5. 454. 27. 
Le Butor brun rayé, Buff: Ois. 7. 424. 
Rayed Bittern, Lath. Syn. 5. 61. 21. 
Ardea soloniensis, Lath. Ind. 2. 681. 19. 
Botaurus rufus, Briss. 5. 458. 29. 
Le Butor Roux, Buff: Ois. 7. 425. 
Rufous Bittern, Lath. Syn. 5. 60. 19. 
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ProvinciAL,—Boonk, or Long Neck. 
Turs is one of the smallest of the Ardeada, scarcely equal- 
ling, in bulk of body, the Spotted Crake, or the Water Rail. 
In-England it is a very rare visitant; not more than five or 
six having come under the notice of our naturalists. Three 
of these Montacu mentions, as having been killed in Devon- 
shire, in the course of the summer of 1808; another is re- 
corded by Dr Friemtne, as killed at Sunda, one of the Ork- 
ney Islands, in the winter of 1805; and PENNanrT has intro- 
duced this bird into the Appendix to his British Zoology, 
in consequence of an adult specimen, which was shot as it 
perched upon a tree on the banks of the Severn, at Shrews- 
bury. To this list may be added another instance, in which 
a Little Bittern was killed at Blagdon, in Northumberland, 
the seat of Sir M. W. Riptey, Baronet, in May 1810; and 
figured by Brwicx, in his Supplement to the British Birds. 
