92 
Allen’s naturalist’s lidrarv. 
quills and in South America a peculiar barred Bittern « 
pi^inalus.^ In North America the representative species is 
B. lenhginosus, described below. i>pecies is 
L the common bittern, botaurus stellaris 
Ardea siellarh Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 239 (1766) 
Bataimts siellans, Macg. Br. Br. iv. p 4^0 (,852) ; Dresser 
P ; B. 6. U. tist Br B 
Ls ed^ Yar?’Bf"?° ’ I" ^93 (1884) ; Saun- 
{PhU LXIX.) 
fibove tawny-yellow and black 
t .c Slterr iie'site^^^ °“»pying.hpc,„t,e 
tol-coverts pale tawny-buff, mottled with bars or cross^E 
of dusky-brown; marginal wing-coverts rufous rcLmhrlv h‘ j 
across with black; median and greater coverts taSv^ rr ""u 
irregular bars or arrow-shaped'n^rkiSs of 
much less pronounced on the greater covertrnH If ?•’ 
have a rufescent tinge near the Inse - 
coverts, and quills blackish, barred with rufous^'thef’ 
what broken up on the inner Jin ’ 
paler, the inner secondmies ' £ ?he scaTu 
taffon >beircdge,. g„d ^o„L^ si 
feathers tawny-buff, irregularly mottled with black bars- or los 
markings, more pronounced on the centre of the feathers • 
crown of head uniform black with -i friii J mainers , 
the nape, these being tip^ Xlvn buff ^ 
crossed with lines of%lick ; eTcbro I £3 J £ 
of neck tawny-buff, the eyebrol uniforS exceo on’ thl 
edge, where the feathers are barred with black f the eancoTe^ 
