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the Bittern lays four eggs. It refused to take food when placed 
in its mouth, whence Miss Turner judged that the young are fed 
by regurgitation, and the only sound it uttered was “a curious 
bubbling note.” As the young of the Bittern are not hatched 

Youne Bittern. (By Miss Turner, Norfolk, July 7th, 1911.) 



simultaneously it is possible that this was the youngest bird of 
the clutch. The illustration of a young Bittern taken at Ran- 
worth long ago (Gurney and Fisher, Zool. 1846, p. 1821) will 
hardly bear comparison with Miss Turner’s beautiful photo- 
graphs, one of which I am permitted to reproduce. The dis- 
covery of the nest fell to the Rev. M. C. Bird eleven days later. 
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