carpal surface of the wing and the tertials reddish brown ; the
wing-coverts buff; breast pale buffy with long. streaks of
dusky brown in the line of the fe a th e rth ig h s in front pale
buff, without streaks, but varied with brown streaks behind';
vent, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts^ .pale buffy
white’-;■ilegsr toes, and claws, reddish-brown.
The dark-coloured streaks on the neck and'breast, and the
broad light-coloured margins of the feathers on the* upper surf
face of the-body are lost by degrees»
G RALLATOMES.. ARDE1DÆ.
THE-COMMON B IT T E R N .
Ardek: stellar is,
Bptaurus
Apeli:':
Botaiirus
Ardea
Bittern Heron, Penij. ]3rit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 14.
Tht Bittern, * Ornitb. Diet.
, , B ewick,"Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 24.
,, F l em.- Brit. An. p. 95.
Common „ Brit Ornith. vol. ii. p. 30.
j E1çnsjs, Brit. .Vert. p. 190.
K M Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii.
Héron Grand Butor, T emm. Man. d’Oraith. vol, ii. p . 580.
