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head, back, and tail, black, glossed with green ; the fore part of the neck, 

 breast and thighs, bun 0 colour ; belly and vent white ; at the shoulders a 

 large chestnut spot ; the larger coverts of the wings whitish ; the lesser 

 coverts yellowish buff ; quill feathers black ; legs and toes dusky green ; 

 thighs feathered to the knees ; middle claw serrated on the inner side. 



The above is the description of the male ; the female is supposed to 

 be the Ardea minuta, Linn. Syst. 240. 26. It differs from the other 

 sex in the plumage of the upper part of the body being brown, margined 

 with pale rufous ; beneath, the feathers are the same, but paler, and 

 more deeply margined. 



The eggs are said to be white, about the size of those of the black- 

 bird, four or five in number, which are placed on the ground upon a few 

 dried flags. 



The Boonk is a very rare bird with us ; few instances only are 

 recorded of its being killed in England. A male was shot near Bath, in 

 the autumn of 1789, perched on the stump of a tree on the bank of 

 the Avon. In the month of May, 1808, a female was shot contiguous 

 to the river Creed, and *Dr. Fleming tells us that one was shot at 

 Sunda, Orkney, in 1805. It is more frequent in some parts of the 

 European continent, particularly in Switzerland, and, as Temminck 

 informs us, in Holland.* 



BOTTLE-NOSE. — A name for the Puffin. 



BOTTLE TIT. — (JPams caudatus, Ray.) 



*Parus caudatus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 342. 11 Grnel. Syst. 1. p. 1010. sp. 11.— 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 569. sp. 20 Raii, Syn. p. 74. A. 5 Wilt. -p. 176. t. 43. 



— Parus longicaudatus, Briss.d.ip. 570. 13. — Le Mesange a longue queue, Buff. 



Ois. 5. p. 437. t. 19 lb. pi. Enl. 502. f. 3. female Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. 



p. 296. — Schwantzmeise, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 879. — Meyer, Tasscheub. 



Deut. 1. p. 272 Staartmees, Sepp. Nederel. Yog. 1. t. p. 49 — Long-tailed 



Titmouse, Br. Zool. 1. No. 166.— -Arct. Zool. 2. p. 248. 9 Will. (Ang.) p. 



242 Lath. Syn. 4. p. 550 lb. Sup. p. 190 — Albin, 2. t. 57. fig. 1 Lewins 



Br. Birds, 3. t. 121.— Mont. Orn. Diet Wale. Syn. 2. p. 249 Pult. Cat. 



Dorset, p. 10 Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. 1. p. 243.— Shaw's Zool. 10. p. 59.— 



Selby, plate 51. fig. 5. p. 233. 



Provincial. — Longtail Mag. Longtail Pie. Poke Pudding. 

 Huckmuck. Bottle Tom. Mum-ruffin.* 

 This is the smallest of the tribe ; the weight about two drams ; 

 length five inches and a quarter. The bill is very short and black ; 

 irides hazel, edges of the eyelids yellow. On the crown of the head is 

 a white streak surrounded by black, which, rising at the base of the 

 bill, passes over each eye, and joining behind the head, forms a broad 

 streak down the back to the rump ; the rest of the plumage above is of a 

 purplish hue ; the sides of the head, throat, and under part of the neck, 

 white, mixed with grey ; from that to the vent dull purplish ; quill- 



