. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . IIP BITTERNS, ETC.—Family ArdeidaeAMERICAN BITTERN 190. BoiaKiiis loitiginosiis. 28 in. ]\ruch variegated with brown and yellowish-brown:adults with a long, broad, black stripe on either sideof tlie wliite throat; eye yellow; legs and base of billgreenish yellow. Bitterns have a great many localnames, most of which refer to the peculiar pumpingnoise that the male makes during the mating tlie most common of these is are found in bogs or marslies; they remainconcoaUd by the tall gr

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. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . IIP BITTERNS, ETC.—Family ArdeidaeAMERICAN BITTERN 190. BoiaKiiis loitiginosiis. 28 in. ]\ruch variegated with brown and yellowish-brown:adults with a long, broad, black stripe on either sideof tlie wliite throat; eye yellow; legs and base of billgreenish yellow. Bitterns have a great many localnames, most of which refer to the peculiar pumpingnoise that the male makes during the mating tlie most common of these is are found in bogs or marslies; they remainconcoaUd by the tall grass until any intruder is veryiirar. licfore they take flight. Notes.—A squawk of alarm: song a hollow pnnk-er-lunk. Nest.—A grass-liiud liollow in tufts of grass or turf,in the middle of bogs or marshes. 3 or 4 plain brownisheggs, measuring But one or two pairs nestin a locality; May, June. Range.—Breeds in tlie nortiiern lialf of tlic InitedStates and Southern Canada: winters in sontiiern halfof the Inited States. LEAST BITTERN191. Ixohrychus cxilis. 13

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