Plate XOI. 



BOTAURUS PIMATTJS. 



(BAB-WIMED BITTEEN). 



Ardea pinnata 



JBotaurtts pinnatus 



Ardea Irasiliensis 



Lieht. in Mus. Berol. : Nomencl. p. 89. 

 Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. 662. 

 Burm. Syst. TTeb. iii. p. 408. 

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

 Bp. Consp. ii. p. 136. 

 Cab. in Schomb. G-uian. 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 extiis et dorso inferiore nigro frequenter transfasciatis ; interscapulio 

 nigro flammulato ; pileo nigricante, plumis ochraceo limbatis : remigibus nigris, prsecipue in secondares ochraceo ter- 

 minates et notatis : reetricibus acutis, nigris, prsecipue ad inargines ochraceo variegatis : subtiis albus, in pectore fulvo 

 lavatus, et nammulis elongatis rufescenti-ochraceis ornatus ; bypocbondriis et tibiis extus nigricante frequenter trans- 

 fasciatis : rostro flavicante, culmine obscuro : pedibus clare corneis : long, tota 260, alse 11*0, caudss 4'0, rostri a rictu 

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



Hah. in Brasilia merid, orient. (Max. et Burm.) : Guiana Brit. {Schomb.) : ins. Trinitatis {Leotaud) : Nicaragua 

 {Holland). 



The late Professor Liclitenstein was the 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 Avium. Wagler, as usual, 

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

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

 likewise published an accurate description of this Bittern, but unfortunately referred it to the 

 Linneean Ardea Irasiliensis, 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 bird, only one true Bittern is known to inhabit any portion of the 

 New World — that is the Botaurus lentiginosus of authors, which occasionally strays on to the 

 western shores of Europe. 



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