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with regular rows of large black fpots : middle of the belly 

 white : quills like the other, and befides fpotted on the exterior 

 web with white : legs pale brown. 



The above were probably male and female, and inhabit the 

 lakes and livers of the hot parts of North America and new-ceded 

 ifles of the Weft Indies. Feed on fifh, yet are reckoned good 

 eating, efpecially the young birds. The fowlers watch in the 

 fedges, and fhoot them. 



L'Onore, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 431. — PI. Enl. 790. 24. 



Heron Tigre, Fermin Surin. ii. p. 151. BITTERN 



Lev. Muf. 



'"PHIS is about two feet fix inches in length. The bill is Description. 



greenifh : irides yellowifh : the top of the head black : the 

 throat and fides of the neck pale rufous, marked with regular 

 fpots of black ; and the neck feathers very long : the reft of the 

 plumage deep rufous, marked with black, like the fkin of a tiger: 

 the chin is white : the under parts much as the upper, but the 

 ground yellowifh white: vent plain white: the tail black, barred 

 with four narrow bars of white : legs green. 



This inhabits Cayenne, Surinam, and other parts of South Ame- Place and 

 rica, and does not appear to be a very rare fpecies, as I have met Manners.. 

 with feveral. It lays feven or eight rounded whitifh eggs, fpotted 

 with green ; making the neft on the ground. It hides itfelfin 

 the reeds, like our European Bittern, and frequents the fame kind 

 of places. It is a moil beautiful fpecies. It feems much allied; 

 to the laft. 



L'Onore 



