HERON. 1 13 



rufous chestnut, covered with long narrow feathers; breast, belly, 

 wings, rump, and tail white., tinged with yellow in some parts ; 

 inner webs of some of the quills with a few spots of black, and the 

 tips of the tail feathers marked with black ; legs saffron-colour ; 

 claws black, much bent, except the hinder one. 



Inhabits Russia, about the Don, coming from the Black Sea and 

 Arabia, but not far inland ; builds on trees ; has been thought to be 

 a Variety of the Sguacco Heron ; but M. Temminck unites both this 

 and the last to that bird as one, and the same species. 



80.--SWABIAN BITTERN. 



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



Botauvus minor, Bris. v. 452. Id. 8vo. ii. 329. 



Petit ButoT, Bvf. vii. 425. 



Ardea viridi-flavescens, Klein, Av. 124. 



Der Schwabisehe Reiher, Bechst. Dents, iii. s. 33. 



Swabian Bittern, Gen. Si/n. v. 60. 



THIS is much less than the Common Bittern. Irides whitish ; 

 bare space between the bill and eye yellow ; head, upper part of the 

 neck, breast, belly, sides, rump, and tail coverts, rufous, striated 

 with brown ; back much the same, but the striae are broader, and 

 more numerous; throat and fore part of the neck white; upper part 

 of the thighs brownish white; quills pale brown, crossed with bars 

 of deeper brown ; tail whitish ; legs pale yellow. 



Inhabits the Banks of the Danube. 



81— DWARF BITTERN. 



Ardea pumila, Ind. Orn. ii. 683. Gm. Lin. i. 644. iV. C. Petr. xiv. 502. t. 14. f. 1. 

 Dwarf Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 77. 



LENGTH nineteen inches and a half. Bill three inches, black, 

 with yellow edges ; the lower mandible yellowish white, with a dusky 



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