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the table, being, as well as the Heron, ken expofed for fale in the 

 London nnarkets ; but the palates of our fifter kingdom feem to 

 relifh it greatly, as I have been informed, that fometimes half a 

 guinea is given for one in Dublin *. This fpecies is found on the 

 <:ontinent, in various parts of RuJJia, and in jijia ; in Sibiria, as far 

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

 north f. We have reafon to think, that it is likewife an inhabit- 

 ant of moft of the milder parts of the old continent ; and not im- 

 probably met with alfo in fome part of India and China, as we 

 have feen it reprcfented in paintings from thofe parts, though not 

 fo commonly as the Heron ; which laft, we are informed, is very 

 frequent at Bengal, where it is called AunjunX" 



Little Bittern, Gen. Syn. v. p. 6;. N" 27. , ^ „. 



Ardeola, Sepp Vog. pi. in p. 57. LITTLE BIT- 



TERN. 



T N Se^f the neft is placed on the ground, and compofed of fliort 

 bits of fticks, with here and there a flag leaf interfperfed. The 

 eggs four in number j the fize of thofe of a Blackbird^ $nd 

 white. 



Cinnamon Heron, Ctii. Syn, v. p. 77. N" 43* 43; 



CINNAMON H, 



T> Y fome fine Chinefe drawings which came under my infpeftion, 

 I find the tail to be of a bright ferruginous chefnut, rather 

 deeper than the colour of the back. It alfo inhabits India^ 



* Mr, Jack/on. \ Ara. Zool. % Mr, Middhttn. 



Hh t ' Snowy 



