t 



PLATE CC. 

 ARDEA STELLARIS, 

 COMMON BITTERN. 

 Grallje. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill ftraight, pointed, long, somewhat compreffed, with a farrow 

 from the noftrils towards the tip : noftrils linear : tongue (harp : feet 

 four-toed, cleft ; toes connected at the bafe. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Head fmoothifli ; body above teftaceous, with tranfverfe fpots 

 beneath paler, with oblong brown fpots. 



Ardea Stellar is : capite Iseviufculo, fupra teftacea maculis tranf- 



verfis fubtus pallidior, maculis oblongis fufcis. 



Fn. Suec. l64.—Gmel. 635. 21. — Scop. Ann. 1. 



p. 125. — Br'unn.Orn.n. 155. — Kram.el. p. 148, 



Georg. it. p. 171. 

 Botaurus. Briff. av. 5. p. 444. n. 24. t. 37. f. 1. 

 Butor. Buff. Hift. Nat. des Oif. 7. p* 411. t.<iL—Pl Enl 



n. 786. 



Bittour, 



