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fure. Iam informed by a friend, that he has diffeéted feveral, and 
clearly obferved a loofe membrane at the divarication of the trachea, 
capable of great diftention, and it ts no doubt by this Singular con- 
ftruétien, that the bellowing kind of noife is made *; another of our 
correfpondents + mentions his having found, during the froft in winter, 
a female Bittern, which had in its ftomach feveral warty Lizards per- 
feét, and the rudiments of feveral Toads.or Frogs, which were pro- 
bably taken out of the mud,.under fhallow water, in the {wamp where 
it was fhot. The Lizards were not differing from thofe in our 
waters in fummer, having the fin on the tail, 
Ardea minuta, 7nd. Ora. ii. p. 683.27. 
Little Bittern, Gen, Syx. v. p. 65.66.—Id. Sup. p. 235. 
NE of thefe was fhot on the river Avon, near Bath, in the 
winter of 1789. ; 
We already have recognized it asa fpecies belonging to many 
parts of Europe, though very rarely coming into England; and that 
it is found in Af, more particularly in Arabia. We likewife find it 
to be an inhabitant of New Holland, at leaft a trifling variety of it, 
differing merely in having five or fix longifh black fpots down the 
fore part of the neck. This is found in the marfhes and other moift 
ground about Port Fack/on, in December. Its native name is Da- 
ralia. : 
© Mr. Lamb.—Wiéillughby mentions the circumftance of the loofe membrane, 
but feems not fufficiently aware of its being the caufe of the noife which this bird: 
makes. 
+ Colonel Montagu. 
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