. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 410 BOTAURUS STELLAHIS. THE EUROPEANBITTERN. COMMON BITTERN. MIREDRUM. BUMPY-COSS. BUTTER-BUMP. BITTER-BUM. BOG-BUMPER. Fig. 34. Ardea stellaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 239. Ardea stellaris. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 680. Ardea stellaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 329. Bittern. Mont. Orn. Diet. Heron Grand Butor. Ardea stellaris. Temm. Man. dOrn. II.
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 410 BOTAURUS STELLAHIS. THE EUROPEANBITTERN. COMMON BITTERN. MIREDRUM. BUMPY-COSS. BUTTER-BUMP. BITTER-BUM. BOG-BUMPER. Fig. 34. Ardea stellaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 239. Ardea stellaris. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 680. Ardea stellaris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 329. Bittern. Mont. Orn. Diet. Heron Grand Butor. Ardea stellaris. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. 580. Ardea stellaris. Flem. Brit. Anim. 95. Common Bittern. Ardea stellaris. Selb. Illustr. II. 30. Ardea stellaris. Common Bittern. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 190. Botaurus stellaris. Bonap. Comp. List, 48. Length about thirty inches; one inch of the tibia light reddish-yellow, with the upper part of the headand the greater portion of the scapulars purplish-black; therest of the upper parts transversely undidated with dusky;the lower parts paler, with the markings on the fore-necklarger and more brown, those along the middle of the breastblack and longitudinal. Young similar. Male.—Although the Bittern has a very bulky appear-ance compared with that of many other species of thisfamily, it is in reality a very slender bird, its size being EUROPEAN BITTERN. 411 chi
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