GREEN BITTERN. 
605 
head, the neck, and the back, are rufous : the 
fore-part of the neck similar, but paler, and each 
feather marked with a streak of black down the 
shaft ; the loose feathers, however, at the base of 
the fore-part of the neck, are plain, and darker in 
colour than the rest : the middle of the wing, from 
the shoulder, is reddish ; the rest of the wing, both 
within and without, is white, some of the quills 
being varied with rufous : the whole of the under 
parts of the body are white : the legs are yellow. 
It is a native of Senegal. 
GREEN BITTERN. 
(Botaurus virescens.) 
Bo. occipite suhcristato, dorso viridi-nitentey pectore rufescente, 
rectricibus viridi-aureis, loris luteis. 
Bittern with the occiput somewhat crested j the back of a shining 
green j the breast rufescent ; the tail-feathers of a golden- 
green, and the lores yellowish. 
Ardea virescens. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 238. 20. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
1. 635. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 684. 31. 
Cancrofagus viridis. Briss. Orn. 5. 486. 43. pL 3"] .f. 1. 
Cancrofagus viridis nsevius. Briss, Orn. 5. 49 O. 7 ?^. 38.^1 2. 
Le Crabier verd. Buf. Ois. 7- 404. 
Le Crabier verd tachete. Buff. Ois, 7 - 405. — Buff. Pi, Enl. 
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