LITTLE BROWN BITTERN. 
rusty, and those on the fore-side of the neck 
and body marked with small brown streaks ; 
differences wdiich seem to result from age or 
sex. Thus the Blongois of the Levant, that 
of Barbary, and that of Switzerland, are all 
the same." 
Mr. Latham supposes the Ardeola Nsvia 
of Brlsson, to be the Female of this species. 
