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BRASILIAN BITTERN. 
(Botaurus Brasiliensis.) 
Bo. capite Icevi, corpore nigricante Jlavo punctato, remigibus rec- 
iricibus rostra pedibiisque nigricnntibus. 
Bittern with the head smooth ; the body dusky, spotted with 
yellow ; the quills, tail-feathers, beak, and legs, dusky. 
Ardea Brasiliensis. Linn. Syst. Nat.^ 1. 23Q. 23. — Gmel, Syst. 
Nat, 1. 637. — Briss. Orn. 5. 441. 23. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
681. 23. 
Soco. Rail. Syn. 100. 14. — IVilL (Ang.) 284. 
L’Onore de Bois. Bu^. Ois. 7. 433. 
Brasilian Bittern. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 62. 23. — Broxvn. Illnst. 
Zool, 88. pi. 34. 
This bird, which appears to vary a trifle, is in 
length two feet eight inches : its beak is blackish : 
irides yellow : the head and neck are brown, 
varied with small black spots : the throat and fore- 
part of the neck white, marked with longitudinal 
black and fuscous spots : the quills and tail are 
dusky : the greater wing-coverts are plain dusky : 
the rest of the plumage, both above and below, is 
dusky, prettily spotted with yellow. One of these 
is mentioned as having the beak reddish yellow : 
the head and upper parts of the body deep orange- 
red, finely barred with black : the chin whitish 
red : the fore-part of the neck pale red, with 
oblong black spots : the belly white, spotted with 
yellow : the thighs barred with dusky : the quills 
