LITTLE BITTERN.
BOONK. RUFOUS BITTERN. LITTLE HERON. LONG-NECK.
LITTLE BITTERN HERON.
Ardea minuta, LINNAEUS. LEACH.
Ardea danubialis, GM ELIN.
Ardca solonicnsis, GMELIN.
Ardeola minuta, PRINCE BUONAPARTE.
Cancrophagus minutas, KAUP.
Butor minu/us, SWAINSON.
Botaurus pusillits, BREHM.
Bota urns minutus, BoiE. EYTON.
Ardea—A Heron. Minuta—Small—minute.
THIS bird belongs to the southern parts of the European continent
—Turkey, Italy, Greece, France. Spain, and Holland. In Sweden it
has been met with, though but very rarely: in Switzerland it is
annually observed, and some few, according to M. Necker, stay to
breed. In Asia it is plentifully distributed about the Black Sea and
the Caspian Sea; in Persia, Syria, and Arabia. In Africa it is also
met with—in Barbary, and so far south as the Cape of Good Hope;
likewise in Madeira.
I n this county, Yorkshire, one was procured near Redcar, which is
on the sea-coast, on the 20th. of September, 1852; one at Birdsall, near
Mai ton, the seat of Henry Willoughby, Esq., about the year 1842; one
at Thorpe, near Burlington, the seat of A. W . Bosville, Esq.; and one
near Doncaster. In Dorsetshire, one in 1851, at Preston, near \\ eymouth,
and one at Ly tenet Maltravers. A young bird was bought in
the LeadenhaU Market, London, and is now in the collection of British
Birds, in the British Museum. One was shot in April, 1852, in the
parish of Oving, in the countv of Sussex, as Mr. George Jackson
informs mc; also another by Mr. W. Jefferv, Junior, at Ratham, near
Chichester, on the 18th. of August, 18(13. Another was run down and
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