Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cor\ 



36s 



Least Bittern, 



81. Ixobrychus neoxenus (Cory). 

 Cory's Least Bittern/-' 

 Ardetta neoxena Cory, A. 0. U. Check List, 1895, p. 70. 

 The type of this species was taken in the marshes southwest of 



*When I described this bird in 1886, I gave it no English name, simply calling it M^oxena 

 (new and strange). The committee of the American Ornithologists' Union have since honored me 

 by giving it my name. 



