452 BITTERN, AND RUSTY-CROWNED HERON. 



PiACE. It inhabits from Hudfon's Bay to Carolina*. In the fornner, it 



appears the latter end of May : lives among fwamps and willows ; 

 lays two eggs. Like the European fpecies, is very indolent ; and, 

 when difturbed, takes but a fhort flight f. 



That of the old continent is found in Ruffia ; and, in AJla, in 'SiMria, 

 , as far north as the river Lena, and is continued confiderably to the 

 north. Inhabits Sweden^i but, with all the other Herons, difap- 

 pears at approach of winter ||. 



The fecond fpecies of Bittern, mentioned hy Laiv/on, p. 148. as 

 being lefler than the former, with a great topping, of a deep 

 V brown color, and a yellowifli white throat and breaft, is at prefenc 



unknown to us. 



358. Rusty- TJ With yellow irides : very fmall creft : the bill feven inches 

 CROWNED. • j^i^g^ flender, and of the fame color with the former : fore- 



head dufliy : throat white : creft and hind part of the neck of a deep 

 ferruginous color : the fore part of the neck marked with four rows of 

 black fpots : the feathers towards the breaft long : a dark line paffes from 

 the breaft upwards to the back of the neck : the upper part of the body, 

 and coverts of the wings, deep ferruginous, marked with a few large 

 black fpots : primaries dufliy : tail fliort, and of a lead color : belly 

 and breaft of a dirty white, ftriped with black : legs of a dirty 

 yellow. The creft on the head is very fmall, and the feathers 

 lie univerfally fmooth. Size of the European Bittern. 

 Place. Inhabits North America ; the province unknown. Defcribed from 



a live bird at Amjlerdam. — Lev. Mus ?■ — Latham, iii. 



* Laiufon, 148. t Ph.Tranf. Ixii. 410. " % Faun, Suec. N' 164, 



11 Amosn.Acail. iv. 588. 



Little 



