-23*
BRASILIAN B.
D e s c r i p t io n .
P lace and
M anners *
H E R O N.
Ardea Brafilieniis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 239, 23*
Le Heron du Brefil, Brif.Orjt. v. p. 44.1. 23.
L’Onore de Bois, Buf. Oif. \ii. p. 433.
Soco, Rail Syn. p. 109. 14.—Will. Onn p. ,284. pi. 51.
Brafilian Bittern, Brown's III. p. 88. pi. 3^..— Gent. Mag. vol. xxxiv. p. 209«
pi. in do.
Clucking Hen, Brown Jam. p. 478.— Damp. Voy. iii. p* 1. p. 75? -
|~ yE N G T H ;two feet eight inches. Bill black : irides yellow :
the head and neck are brown, marked with fmall black fpots:
throat and fore part of the neck white, marked with longitudinal
black and brown fpots: the upper and under parts of the body, and
leffer wing coverts, are blackiih, fpotted all over with yellow;
but the greater coverts are plain : the quills and tail are blackiih:
the legs brovVn.
This is'-found in-various parts of South America. A different
defcription is given of this bird in the Gent. Mag. * ; .which ob-
ferves, that it is a quarter lefs than in the common Heron. The bill
reddilh yellow : head and upper part of the body deep orange
red, finely barred with black : chin whitilh red : fore part of the
neck pale red, with oblong black fpots; the feathers long and
loofe: belly white, fpotted with yellow: thighs barred with
dufky : quills black, tipped with white : rump and tail coverts
dafhed with white,-black, and yellow narrow lines: fair black,
eroded with a few white lines, and tipped with the fame: legs*
dull ruft-colour.
A feednd differed in fome refpedts. The long neck feathers
were white on their lower parts: breaft and fides white, marked
* The defcription Jikewife in Bronun’s III. differs not materially from this.
10 with-
. with regular rows of large black fpots : middle of the belly
white : quills like the other, and befides fpotted on the exterior
web with white : legs pale brown.
The above were probably male and female, and inhabit the
lakes and rivers of the hot parts of North America and new-ceded
ifles of the Weft Indies. Feed on fifh, yet are reckoned good
eating, efpecially the young birds. The fowlers watch in the
fedges, and (hoot them.
L’Onore, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 431 .—PI. Enl. 790.
Heron Tigré, Fermin Surin, ii. p. 151.
Lev. Muf.
n p H i s is about two feet fix inches in length. The bill is
greenifh : irides yellowifh : the top of the head black : the
throat and fides of the neck pale rufous, marked with regular
fpots of black s, and the neck feathers very long : the reft of the
plumage deep rufous, marked with black, like the fkin of a tiger:
the chin is white,: the undér parts much as the upper, but the
ground yellowifh white: vent plain white: the tail black, barred
with four narrow bars of white : legs green.
This inhabits Cayenne, Surinam, and other parts of South America,
and does not appear to be a very'rare fpècies, as I have met
with feveral. It lays feven or eight rounded whitifh eggs, fpotted
with greén ; making the neft on the ground. It hides itfelf in
the reeds, like our European Bittern, and frequents the lame kind
of places. It is a mbft beautiful fpecies. It feems much allied
to the laft. I
11 4- TIGER
BITTERN.
D e s c r i p t io n.,
P l a c e and
Manners..
L’Onosé