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32.— RUFOUS BITTERN. 



Ardea Sologniensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 681. Gm. Lin. i. 637. 



Botaurus rufus, Bris. v. 458. Id. 8vo. ii. 330. 



Ardeae stellaris tertium Genus, Rail, 100. Will. 108. 



Butor roux, Buf. vii. 425. 



Quoimeau, Salern. Orn. 315. 



Aldrov. 3d sort of Speckled Heron, Will. Engl. 283. xiii. 



Rufous Bittern, Gen. Syn. v. 60. 



A TRIFLE less than our Bittern. Bill blackish, horn-colour 

 beneath; irides yellow; crown of the head black; the rest of the 

 head, throat, and neck, ferruginous and white mixed ; greater quills 

 blackish, lesser ferruginous ; tail blackish ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the neighbourhood of Bologna, in Italy. Sal erne 

 thinks it may be the bird called Quoimeau, about Sologne, in 

 France. This seems to be very like the Little Bittern. 



33— RAYED BITTERN. 



Ardea Danubialis, Ind, Orn. ii. 681. Gm. Lin. i. 537. 

 Botaurus striatus, Bris. v. 454. Id. 8vo. ii. 329. 

 Le Butor brun raye, Buf. vii. 424. 

 Der Gestrichelte Reiher, Bechst. Deuts. iii. s. 34. 

 Rayed Bittern, Gen. Syn. v. 61. 



SIZE of the last. Bill brown, yellowish beneath ; lore naked, 

 yellow ; plumage above, as well as the belly and vent, crossed with 

 lines of brown, black, and pale rufous; mixed irregularly, so as at 

 a distance to appear wholly brown ; fore part of the neck and breast 

 whitish : legs grey. 



Inhabits the Banks of the Danube. Thought by M. Temminck 

 to be the Little Bittern in immature plumage. 



