6o 



HERON. 



19. 



RUFOUS B. 



Description. 



Plac 



Le Butor roux, Brif Ortt. v. p. 458. 29. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 42;. 

 Ardeas flellaris tertium genus Aldrov. Rail Sjn. p. 100. 12. 

 Aldrovandus's 3d fort of Speckled Heron, Will. Orn. p. 283. 

 Quoimeau, Salerne Orn. p. 315. 



TRIFLE bigger than the Swahian Bittern. Bill blackifh, 

 horn-coloured beneath : irides yellow : crown of the head 

 black ; the reft of the head, throat, and neck, ferruginous : back, 

 fcapulars, and rump, blackifh: from the breaft to the vent pale ru- 

 fous : wing coverts ferruginous and white, mixed : greater quills 

 blackifh, the leiTer ones ferruginous : tail blackifh : legs brown. 



This is faid to inhabit the neighbourhood of Bologna. Salerne 

 thinks it may probably prove the bird called Quoimeau, which is 

 not unfrequent about Cologne in France. This defcription was 

 from a young bird ; and, if fo, it is fcarcely clear whether it was a 

 diftincT: fpecies or not. 



.20. 

 SVVABIAN B. 



D£ 



SCRIPTION. 



LACE. 



Le petit Butor, Brif. Orn. v. p. 452. 26. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 423. 



'TP H I S is much lefs than the common Bittern. The irides 

 whitifh : bare fpace between the bill and eye yellow : the 

 head, and upper part of the neck, breaft, belly, fides, rump, 

 and tail coverts, are rufous, ftriated with brown : the back is 

 much the fame j but the ftris are broader, and more numerous : 

 throat and fore part of the neck white : upper part of the thighs 

 brownifh white: quills pale brown, crofted with bars of deeper 

 brown : tail whitifh : legs pale yellow. 

 Inhabits the banks of the Danube. 



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