102 HERON. 



irides yellow; upper parts of the head, neck, and back, variegated 

 with yellow, rufous, and brown, in the manner of the Common 

 Bittern ; the chin, neck before, and breast, not unlike, but paler ; 

 and the whole marked with large, long, sagittal, rufous brown streaks, 

 barred on the sides ; the cheeks, beneath the eye, plain, pale dusky 

 yellow ; the belly, thighs, and vent, white, marked with long dusky 

 streaks, but not barred on the sides ; quills dusky, and reach to the 

 end of the tail ; wing coverts mottled as the back, spotted and 

 varied with rufous brown ; legs pale blue. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and frequents the marshes there; said to 

 be a rare bird. 



66.— YELLOW BITTERN. 



Ardea flava, Ind. Orn. ii. 6S2. Gm. Lin. i. 638. 

 Botaurus Brasiliensis, Bris. v. 460. Id. Svo. ii. 331. 

 Butor jaune du Bresil, Buf. vii. 429. 

 Yellow Bittern, Gen. Syn. v. 64. 



LENGTH two feet three inches. Bill four inches and a half 

 long, serrated next the point, brown, with a pale green base; irides 

 golden yellow; head and hind part of the neck pale yellow, streaked 

 with black; back brown, with yellowish streaks; throat white; fore 

 part of the neck, breast, and belly, white, waved with brown, the 

 last edged with yellow ; quills black and green mixed, the ends 

 white; the tail like the quills, but crossed with white lines; legs 

 dark grey. 



Inhabits Brazil, and is accounted good eating. 



67.— BRAZILIAN BITTERN. 



Ardea Brasiliensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 681. Lin.'x. 239. Gm. Lin. i. 637. Bris. v. 441. 



Id. Svo. ii. 326. 

 Soco, Raii, 100. 14. Will. 209. t. 51. Id. Engl. 284. pi. 51. 

 L'Honore de Bois, Buf. vii. 433. 



