LITTLE BROWN filTTERN. 
the middle parts of which are black. The 
belly and thighs are covered with light brown 
feathers, of a loose texture, having long nar- 
row black spots down their middies. The 
wings are of a reddish brown, lighter than the 
back: their lesser coverts are spotted, as on 
the back ; but the next coverts above the quills, 
and the quills nearest the back, are brown, 
with little or no black. The greater quills, and 
the tail-feathers, are black : the pinion that 
covers the bottoms of the greater quills is also 
black* The covert -feathers within-side the 
wings, the lower belly, and the coverts beneath 
the tail, are white^ The insides of the quills, 
and under side of the tail-feathers, are ash« 
coloured; The legs and feet are of a greenish 
colour. The outer toe is conne6i:ed to the 
middle one by a membrane at it's bottom : the 
middle claw, on each foot, is pe6linated on one 
of it's edges. 
This bird," Edwards adds, was brought 
from Aleppo, by l)r> Russel, who gave me 
liberty to make a drawing of it. Dr. Shaw, in 
liis Travels to Barbary and the Levant, has de- 
scribed a Little Bittern, called in Barbary Boo- 
' Onk, 
