BRASILIAN BITTERN. 
This species of Bittern, the Ardea Brasilia 
ensis of Linn^us, is by BufFon called the 
Onore of the Woods. Marcgrave ranges it, 
under the general name Soco, with the Herons : 
but, as BufFon observes, it appears to be much 
more related to the Qnorcs, and consec^uently 
to the Bitterns o 
The Brasilian Bittern is a native of South 
America, and found in Guiana, as well as in 
Brasil ; where it was first seen by Europeans, 
and thence obtained it's nam.e of distin6lion. 
Marcgrave says, that the neck of this bird 
measures a foot ; and that the total length, 
from the bill to the tail,, is about tliree feet. 
The bill, which is yellowish, is black to-- 
wards the end; the head, and upper part of 
the neck, are ferruginous streaked with black ^ 
and the feathers on the lower part of the neck 
are long and loose like those of the Common 
Bittern, the upper parts of them being rust co- 
ioured, and the lower white spotted with black.. 
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