HERON. 
ose face care and naked ; creft with thirty’ feathers ; 
ALEATA Hind- head fomewhat crefted ; body: m milk- 
Shite, bill pale yellow ; ; legs fcarlet. Molina. 
on. 
+ Height two feet feven inches ;_ bill fit inches cay A 
_mative of Chili 
Ferru GINEA 
The bill 
ee b. pose ped 
em. mate, atte ciwrris, Bah Le crabier marron, 
Bull Red-legged hero 
Tahabits about hae in n Italy ; ; the bill black; head 
varied with yellow and black. Size of the gree ech heron, 
A fuppofed oes has the fides of the-néck ipotted, and 
the legs pale yello 
SrRIATA, Hind | head fomewhat crefted ; tacts hoary 
and ftreaked ; neck beneath ferruginous ; fecondary quill- 
feathers white at the tip. Gmel. Heron of Guiana, Ban- 
croft. Striated her 
 Defcribed | by Bancroft. as a sable #3 peri: $ its fize bitte 
equal to that of the common heron ; » com- 
prefled, and furrowed on the fides. te fee me inhabits 
Surinam ; and is faid to be feen at Aftrachan about March. 
Virescens: Hind head fomewhat one hess back fhinin ei 
green ; breaft ene) 
- ~f male as 
verd, 
the length 18. Pee 3 bill 
brown ; legs pee It inhabits New York and 
oh pars of North America, gy si thence to the iflands 
: the Sg Indian feas e {pecies is {uppofed to breed 
where it is “found only in the fummer. It 
on file, of the fmaller fi ze, and alfo on reptiles and crabs ; 
airs allufion to the eles is fometimes called the crab- 
They ate a mle a in fize, and there appear to be two or 
of Buffon, has ‘the stems cinereous ; the head 
crefted ; anterior part 
mn greenith, edged with rufous; and the 
eet hick Its fize and habits like: abe former. hee 
Galeated 
, rae 
‘are hatched in 25 d 
One of thefe, l crabier de Brow 
crown black and brown longits 
SreLiAnts, Head rather fmooth; body above: tefta- 
ceous, with tranverfe pee? beneath pale, with oblong brown 
fpots. Linn. Ardea flellaris minor . Botaurus, Briff. 
Butor, Buft. Bittour or bittern, Ray, &c. » Common biltern, 
onov. Br. Birds, 
Bad lefs than, eek common heron ; the bill ra Som 
; the rae me feed ; et long 
The bitéern 4 is an inhabitant of the temperate parts 
of Europe, Afia, and America, migrating northerly in the 
fummer, but in fome countries, a8 in if 
reeds in the day ‘time. 
About funfet it quits its hiding-plac care ana its 
» foaring, witha prodigious noife, to a ht, ina 
{piral ‘direGtion ‘The-food of thé bittern confits principally 
of fifhes, ” se jie, and ae we kind of quadrupeds, par- 
ticularly mice ; and in it fwallows its prey entire. 
. builds its neft in Aprila anion the reeds ; the female lays 
four or five egys of d. » te zreenih afh-colour ; and the young 
The flefh 
equally with that of rahe pheafant. 
kind occursin Hudfon’s s bay, the bill of which is = 0% 
the colour of the plumage im general darker, reer: 
by whom it is confidered delicious, callat JZ. 
Soxonniensis. ‘Crown black; head fmoathy iit with 
the neck, ferruginous ; oa e blackifh, beneath reddith, 
— Botaurus rufus, Brill, Butor roux, Buff. Rufous 
Native of Italy ; ; the bill blackith, beneath horny ; “3 
coverts varied with ferruginous and white ; greater q 
feathers blackish, leffer ferruginous ; legs brown, Lefs than 
the common bittern. 
Gut. Rufous ftreaked with brown ; head fmooth, 
_ Mansi 
throat white ; quill-feathers brownifh with dutky bars; tail 
hitifh. Ginel.  Botaurus 
minor, Briff. Peit butor, Buf 
ian bittern. 
Rather f{maller than the prt and inhabits the Danube. 
reddith lines ; 
DANUvuBIALIS. 
head {fmooth; lores von ange throat and breaft 
whitifh. Griel, Asap y Butor wor brunrayie 
Buff. Rajed 
Size at the lat ft, and’ inhabits the fame places ; ‘the bill de 
ds brown, beneath yellowith ; ger the legs and claws 
‘Brasitiénsis. | Head {mooth; bod: dotted 
with yellow ; tail-feathers, with the bill and legs, 
blackifh. G. Ardea Brafilienfis, Brill. Soco, —— 
Onoré pola Buff, Clucking ben, Brown. Brafiian bittert, 
razil; the sh tenn fase thdeplndhen ¢ head 
Navn of rai th fo iack ft stent sti web 
Uspetara.  Reddith 
Usputata. Redd 
with black na Reig megulen Breaks 
vn Bitter ites og = a st = Petit butor de Cayenne, Buff. eis ay 
the general p e is brown “Length 13 inches; the bill brown; re neck 
dered with eat and the quill and tal eaten bli sg ee Ps ot og joa ages tail ak 
wdeycpe, Hed od Soin cents eres peers ty es chin and vent whi Onoré, 
ie Bak” desis ae fray. rd 
Jana of Italy, Thelen thre feet nine inches, The 
= 
Vou. 
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and flowi 
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