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VIII. The LITTLE BITTERN. 



Ardeola (le Blongios) Brif- 

 fon a-v. V. 497. tab. 40. 



Ardea vertice dorioque ni- 

 gris, collo antice et alarum 

 te&ricibus lutefcentibus . 

 (Stauden Ragerl , Kleine 



Moofs-kuh.) Kram. 348. 

 Boonk or long Neck. Shaw's 



Travels, 255. 

 Ardea Minuta. Lin. fyft. 240. 

 Kleiner Rohrdommel. Frifcb, 



II. 206. 207. 

 Ed<w. civ. 275. 



THIS fpecies was fliot as it perched on one of 

 the trees in the Quarry or public walks in 

 Shrew/bury, on the banks of the Severn ; it is fre- 

 quent in many other parts of Europe? but the only 

 one we ever heard of in England. 



The length to the tip of the tail was fifteen inch- 

 es, to the end of the toe twenty. The bill to the 

 corners of the mouth two inches and a half long, 

 dufky at the point ; the fides yellow ; the edge jag- 

 ged : the bulk of the body not larger than that of 

 a fieldfare. 



The top of the head, the back, and tail were 

 black, gloffed with an obfcure green : the neck is 

 very long, the forepart of which, the bread and 

 thighs, were of a buff color : the belly and vent-fea- 

 thers white : the hind-part of the neck bare of fea- 

 thers, but covered with thofe growing on the fide 

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