jo. 



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Le Butor tachete d'Amerique, Erif. Orn. v. p. 464. 32. 

 Var. E, L'Etoile, Buf. 6if. vii. p. 428. 



A fmall Bittern, Rait Syn. p. 1S9 4. — Sloan Jam. p. 31s- 5' pi. 263. fig. z. 

 Crab-catcher, Brown Jam. p. 478. 

 Brown Bittern, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 78. 



Leu. Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH twenty inches. Bill greenifh black, beneath pale • 

 green : lore naked, and of the fame colour : irides gold-co- 

 lour : general colour of the plumage brown ; paleft beneath : 

 wings fpotted with white : tail of a blueifh aih-colour : legs 

 greenifh yellow. 

 Place. This inhabits Jamaica, Carolina, and other parts of North 



America. We believe it to be a mere variety of the 'firft-de- 

 fcribed, and a female of the Green; having received all of them 

 from Jamaica and North America. They certainly differ, as Briffon 

 has defcribed them j but by comparifon no one can fail of being 

 of the opinion here advanced. 



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Le Butor tachete, ou le Pouacre, BriJ. Orn. v. p. 462. $i.—Buf. Oif. vii. 

 SPOTTED H. p. 427. 



Der Schwartze reiger, Frijcb. ii. pi. 9. 



Description. QIZE of a Crow : length eighteen inches and a quarter. Bill 

 brown; beneath greenifh yellow: lore naked, greenifh: gene- 

 ral colour brown, paleft beneath : the upper parts fpotted with 

 white, except the lower part of the back, which is plain : quills 

 deep brown, marked with white at the tips : tail plain brown : 

 legs greenifh brown. 

 Place. This frequents the marfhes ; feeds on frogs and fifh. 



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