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GREEN BITTERN. 
Le Crabier de Cayenne. PI. Enl. QOS. ? 
Small Bittern. Catesb. Carol. 1. pi. SO. 
Green Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 6S. 30. — Wills. Amer. Orii, 
7 - 97 . 1 - 
Length eighteen inches : the beak is greenish 
brown ; the under mandible yellowish at the base : 
the irides are yellow : lores naked, and yellow : 
the crown of the head of a dusky golden-green, 
glossed with copper : the feathers of the occiput 
elongated, and forming a crest : neck rusty bay- 
colour : the back, tail, and wdngs, are dusky brown, 
tinged with plumbeous : the lesser wing-coverts 
and primary’ quills similar in colour to the back, 
and edged with yellowdsh : the middle and greater 
wing-coverts dark glossy green, fringed with fer- 
ruginous : the chin and throat are white : the rest 
of the fore-part of the neck streaked with white : 
beneath, and following the direction of the under 
jaw, is a ferruginous stripe : the feathers on the 
lower part of the neck are narrow, and fall over 
the breast; those of the back are similar, and 
cover the rump : the legs are greenish. The sup- 
posed female, or more probably the young bird, 
has the crown dusky ; its feathers not elongated, 
and those of the neck pale browm, streaked with 
white : the back and scapulars are brown, the latter 
slightly tipped with white : all the wdng-coverts 
have a triangular white spot at tiie tip, and the 
last row have their edges of that colour : the 
secondary quills are dusky green, edged wdth 
paler : the greater quills brown, glo.ssed wu’th green. 
