COMMON BITTERN 153 
and another, doubtfully, from Antrim. There are a few 
records from Cumberland and Lancashire; but the standing 
of the species here can hardly be established on the above 
evidence. It has occurred in both Shetland and Orkney.] 
BOTAURUS STELLARIS (l.inn.). COMMON 
BITTERN. 
Manx, Ushag-ny-boob! (M. 8. D.). (Cf. Se. Gaelic, Bubazre ; 
Trish, Bunnawn ; Welsh, Aderyn y Bun.) 
For the statement sometimes made that this species 
formerly inhabited the Curragh, I do not know what founda- 
tion exists; it is no doubt sufficiently likely.” Mr. Ker- 
mode mentions one at Orrisdale taken by the late Dr. 
Crellin—(This specimen is still at Orrisdale. It is mentioned 
by Dr. Crellin to Mr. More, but he says that he did not 
shoot it himself)—one shot near Peel about 1877 (1880 
list), and one killed near Castletown about 1866 by Mr. 
Kinvig. 
In Yarrell (4th ed., vol. iv. p. 214) it is said: ‘A bird 
believed to be of this species’ (ze, an American Bittern, 
B. lentiginosus) ‘is recorded by Mr. J. R. Wallace in the 
Isle of Man’; but the specimen so labelled in the Wallace 
collection, which was seen by Rev. H. A. Macpherson, was 
stated by that gentleman (in /it., 20th September 1899) to 
be B. stellaris, and he added, ‘I believe I corrected its 
identification some years ago’ (Y. L. M., iii. 533, 548). 
1 But Yn Choayr vooar, Isa. xiv. 23; Y bittern, Zeph. ii. 4. 
2 Bitterns are named by Blundell (1656), p. 46, as existing in Man; but he 
also gives ‘Cranes’ as distinct from ‘Herons,’ and the passage cannot be con- 
sidered to have much weight. 
