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The Bittern is efteemed very pod 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 clawis of a 
remarkable length, and is fometimes fet in filver, 
and ufed as a tooth-pick, 7 
_ 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 eee ule in ie 
ting rats. 

In North America, and imfome of the ‘hand 
in the Welt-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 
- Sikely it may dart upon them like the King-fifher, 
