GREEN BITTERN. 



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head, the neck, and the back, are rufous : the 

 fore-part of the neck similar, but paler, and each 

 feather marked with a streak of black down the 

 shaft ; the loose feathers, however, at the base of 

 the fore-part of the neck, are plain, and darker in 

 colour than the rest : the middle of the wing, from 

 the shoulder, is reddish ; the rest of the wing, both 

 within and without, is white, some of the quills 

 being varied with rufous : the whole of the under 

 parts of the body are white : the legs are yellow. 

 It is a native of Senegal. 



GREEN BITTERN. 



(Botaurus virescens.) 



Bo. occtpite subcristatOf dorso viridi-nitente, pectore rufescentef 

 rectricihus viridi-aureis, loris luteis. 



Bittern with the occiput somewhat crested j the back of a shining 

 green j the breast rufescent j the tail-feathers of a golden- 

 green, and the lores yellowish. 



Ardea virescens. Linn. Syst. Nat, 1. 238. 20. — Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 

 1. 635.— Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 684. 31. 



Cancrofagus viridis. Briss» Orn. 5. 486. 43. pL Z^J.f. 1. 



Cancrofagus viridis nsevius. Briss. Orn, 5, 4gO. pi. 38.^1 2. 



Le Crabier verd. Buff. Ois. 7. 404. 



Le Crabier verd tachete. Buff, Ois, 7. 405,—Buff. PI, Enl, 

 912. 



