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BRASILIAN BITTERN. 

 (Botaurus Brasiliensis.) 



Bo. capite lavi, corpore nigricante Jlavo punctata, remigibus rec- 



iricibus rostra pedibusque nigricantibus. 

 Bittern with the head smooth ; the body dusky, spotted with 



yellow ; the quills, tail-feathers, beak, and legs, dusky. 

 Ardea Brasiliensis. Linn. Si/st, Nat. 1. 239- 23. — Gmel, Si/st, 



Nat. 1. 637.—Briss. Orn. 5. 441. 23,— Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 



681.23. 



Soco. Raii, Syn. 100. U.-^Will. (Ang.) 284. 

 L'Onore de Bois. Biif. Ois. y. 433. 



Brasilian Bittern. Lath, Gen, Syn, 5. 62. 23. — Broivn, Illust, 

 ZooL 88. pL 34. 



This bird, which appears to vary a trifle, is in 

 length two feet eight inches : its beak is blackish : 

 irides yellow : the head and neck are brown, 

 varied with small black spots : the throat and fore- 

 part of the neck white, marked with longitudinal 

 black and fuscous spots : the quills and tail are 

 dusky : the greater wing-coverts are plain dusky : 

 the rest of the plumage, both above and below, is 

 dusky, prettily spotted with yellow. One of these 

 is mentioned as having the beak reddish yellow : 

 the head and upper parts of the body deep orange- 

 red, finely barred with black : the chin whitish 

 red: the fore-part of the neck pale red, with 

 oblong black spots : the belly white, spotted with 

 yellow : the thighs barred with dusky : the quills 



