424 BITTERN. Class 1L 



unwebbed, falling loofe over the bread ; the fca- 

 pulars of the fame texture, grey (beaked with white. 

 The ridge of the wing white, primaries and baf- 

 tard wing black •, along the fides beneath the wings 

 is a bed of black feathers, very long, foft and ele- 

 gant ; in old times ufed as egrets for the hair, or 

 ornaments to the cans of Knis-hts of the garter •, 

 the bread, belly, and thighs white: the laft darned 

 with yellow. The tail confifts of twelve fhort ci- 

 nereous feathers : the legs are of a dirty green : 

 the toes long, the claws fhort, the inner edge of the 

 middle claw finely ferrated. 

 Female The head of the female is grey: it-wants the long 



creft, having only a fhort plume of dufky feathers: 

 the feathers above the breafl fhort ; the fcapulars 

 grey and webbed : the fides grey. This has hi- 

 therto been fuppofed to be a diftiricl fpecies from 

 the former \ but later obfervations prove them to 

 be the fame. 



I74. BlTn 

 TERN. 



Le Butor. Belon a-v. 192. 



Brrind, Rordump. Gefner 

 r.-j. 215. 



The Myredrombie. Turner. 



Trombone, Terrabufo. Aldr. 

 aw. III. 164. 



Bittour, Bittern, or Mire- 

 drum. JVil. cm. 282. 



Rati Jyn. a-j. 100. 



Botaurus, le Butor. BnlTon Danis Rordrum. Brunnich, 



Garza bionda, o di color d'oro. 



Zinan. 112. Scopoli, No. 



125. 

 Rohrtrummel, Moiskuh. 



Kram. 548. 

 Rohrdommel. Frifcb,\l. 205. 

 Ardea ftellaris. Lin.fyfi. 239. 

 Rordrum. Faun. Suec. fp. 



164. 



a-v. V. 444. tab. 37. 



Br. Zool. 



117. tab. A. 1. 



THE bittern is a very retired bird, conceal- 

 ing itfelf in the midft of reeds and rufhes in 



marfhy 



