Botaurus lentiginosus . 
Concord, 
1893. 
Apr.11. 
Mass. 
During a second visit to Davis's Hill in the afternoon 
I went down to the edge of a little pond and started a Bit¬ 
tern which rose 20 yards or more off from a clump of flooded 
bushes and rising in a broad spiral to above the top of the 
trees flew off over them instead of out over the meadows. 
Had I not made sure of the bird's identity when it first rose 
I should have taken it for a Might Heron when it was thus 
soaring over the tall pines on the hill. It uttered no sound. 
