Plate XCI. 



BOTATJRUS PIFNATUS. 



(BAE-WINGED BITTEEN). 



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Ardea pinnata 



Sotaurus pinnatus 



Ardea hrasiliensis 



Liclit. in Mus. Berol./Nomencl. p. 89. 

 Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 662. 

 Burm. Syst. TJeb. iii. p. 408. 

 Schlegel, Mus. d. P. B. Ardeif, p. 49. 

 Bp. Consp. ii. p. 136. 

 Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 754. 

 Leotaud, Ois. de Trin. p. 429. 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. T. viii. p. 184. 

 Max. Beitr. iv. p. 642 (1833). 



.Supra ochraceo-flavescens/cervice postica/alis extus et dorso inferioreiaigro frequenter transfaseiatis/interscapulio 

 nigro flammulato : pileo nigricaute, plumis ocnraceo limbatis : remigibus nigris, prsecipue in secondariis ocbraceo ter- 

 minatis et notatis : rectricibus acutis, nigris, prsecipue ad margines ochraeeo variegatis : subtus albus f in pectore fulvo 

 lavatus y et flammulis elongatis rufesceutrf ocbraceis ornatus ; bypocliondriis et tibiis extug nigricante frequenter tran;-'- 

 fasciatyts : rostro flavicante, culmine obseuro : pedibus clare cornels : long, tots^ 26 0, alfe 110, eaudae 4'0, rostri a rictu 

 , 4'5, tarsi 4, digiti medii cum ungue 4'5, dig. post. c. u. 3. 3. 



Jfab. in Brasilise meria^, orient. (Max. et Burm.) /Guiana rBrit. (Schomb.) : ins. Trinitatis (Leotaud) : Nicaragua 

 (Holland). ^ ' 



The late Professor Lichtenstein was tlie first to discriminate this, as well as many other 

 rare species of American birds, but contented himself with affixing to it the name Ardea pinnata/ 

 in the Berlin Museum. Under this title it was first described by Wagler, in one of his papers 

 in the " Isis," containing additions and emendations to his/Systema Aviunj/ Wagler, as usual, 

 gives an excellent account of the bird, and clearly points out the many marked characters in 

 which it differs fi'om its allies of the same genus. A few years later, Prince Max. of Neuwied, 

 likewise published an accurate description of this Bittern, but unfoi'tunately referred it to the 

 Linnsean Ardea hrasiliensis^ which is a species of Tiger-Bittern. Prince Max. tells us that it is 

 not so common in Brazil as the bird called by him Ardea lineata^ which is the Tiger-Bittern 

 figured in our next plate. Both the Prince and Burmeister state that it does not differ in habits 

 from other species of the genus. 



Besides the present gpe^ies^ only one true Bittern is knoAvn to inhabit any portion of the 

 New World — that is/ the Butaurus leiltiginosus of authors, which occasionally strays on to the 

 western shores of Europe. 



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