PLATE LIV. 



ARDEA MINUTA. 



LITTLE BITTERN. 



Grall J£. 



Bill roundifli. Tongue entire, flefhy. Thighs naked-. Toes 

 divided* 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftrait, long, acute. Toes connected as far as the firft joint by 

 a flrong membrane, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Bill greenifh yellow. Head, back, quills, tail black glofled with 

 green. , Neck, bread and thighs, buff; thighs feathered to the knees. 



Ardea Minuta. Linn. Syjl. I. 240. ed. 12. 



Ardea vertice dorfoque nigris, collo antice et alarum te&ricibus 



lutefcentibus, (Stauden Ragerl, Kleine Moofs-kuh) kram. 348. 

 Ardeola. Sepp. Fog. pL in p . 57 . 

 JLittle Bittern. Penn. Br. Zoo!. Appen. 8. p. 638, 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. p. 66. 27. 



— — SuppU 235. 

 Little brown Bittern. Edw . pL 275. 

 Le Blongios tachete (female) Brif. Orn. 5./. 497. 47. 

 Blongios de fuiffe (male) Buff. Oif. 7. p. 395. 



Kleiner Rohrdommel. Frtfch* 2. 206. 207. 



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