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The Bittern is efteemed very good food ; it is 
_plump and flefhy, and feeds upon vegetables when 
it cannot procure animal food. . 
‘The feathers on the breaft of the Bittern are 
very long, and hang loofe ; its hind claw is of a - 
remarkable length, and is fometimes fet in filver, 
and ufed as a tooth-pick. bist, 
This bird, as well as the Heron, when only 
maimed, is very apt to ftrike at the fowler’s eyes. 
There is a Bittern found near the rivers of 
Cayenne, called the Lineated Bittern; one of 
them was kept tame, and was of great ufe in kil- 
| ling rats. 
In North America, and in fome of the iflands 
in the Weft-Indies, there is a green Heron, which 
feeds on frogs, crabs, and {mall fifh ; it fits a long 
time together, with its head drawn in between its 
fhoulders, on a branch of a tree which hangs 
over the water, and watches for fifh, and very 
likely it may dart upon them like the King-fither. 
B6 --. Genus 

