LITTLE HERON, AND COMMON CRANE. 453 



Little Bittern, ^r. Zm/. ii. App. N° x. tab. vili. — PI. Enl. iz^,— Latham, u\. 359. Little. 



Ardea Minuta, Lin. Syft. zip. — Lev. Mus, — Bl. Mus. 



XJ With a fmooth head: crown black : hind part of the neck and 

 cheeks ferruginous : coverts on the ridge of the wing, and 

 ends of the greater, of a bright bay; the reft of the coverts of a 

 very pale clay color : primaries and fecondaries du(l<;y, with ferru- 

 ginous tips : lower fide of the neck and belly of a yellowifh white : 

 breaft crofted with a band of black: tail black: legs of a duflcy « 



green. Length, to the end of the tail, fifteen inches. The body 

 narrow : neck very long. 



Inhabits from New York to South Carolina, and many parts of Placs._ 



Europe. Extends to, and perhaps winters in J<?»?«/V«. Its eggs are 

 of a fea-green color. 



Common Crake, Br. Zool. ii. App. No vi.— Ardea Grus, Trana, Faun. Suec. N* 161. 

 — Latham, iii. —La Grue, De Buffon, vii. 286. tab. xiv.— /•/. Enl. 769. 



—Lev. Mus. 



XJ With a bald crown : fore part of the neck black : primaries 

 black : a large tuft of elegant unwebbed curling feathers 

 fpringing from one pinion of each wing : thofe, and all the reft of the 

 plumage, cinereous. Length fix feet. Weight about ten pounds. 



Cranes arrive in Sweden in great flocks in the fpring feafon ; pair. Place. 



and difperfe over the whole country j and ufually refort to breed to 

 the very fame places which they had ufed for many years paft *• 



* Aman, Jcad. iv. 588. 



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