THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Bittern was calling. A few days later, and when I had given up all hope of 
seeing it, one called when in a patch of mangroves, and walked straight up to me. 
Upon wounding the bird with my gun it fell, and then rose and bolted through 
the scrub, I following the fastest feathered creature yet hunted by myself. 
Tracking the bird in the soft mud I heard a cry and finally found it about 
one hundred yards away, quite dead.” 
Of the birds described, the male was collected by Mr. J. P. Rogers, at 
Obagama, in North-west Austraha, on January 21st, 1904 ; and the female 
at the same place, on August 26th, 1902. I am indebted to the Hon. Walter 
Rothschild for having given me the bird figured. 
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