. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . HERODIONES. ( 52 ) ARDEID^. THE NIGHT HERON. THE GREY NIGHT HERON, THE NIGHT RAVEN. Nycticorax griseus. The Heron came from the Witch-pule tree. The Hotilet frae Deadivood-howe ;The au Id grey Corbie hoverit aboone. While tears downe his cheeks didjlowc. The Gloamyne Buchte. A SPECIMEN of this very rare bird was shot while sittingon the top of a tall oak-tree at the Hirsel, by the Earl ofHome, on the 25th of May 1822.
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . HERODIONES. ( 52 ) ARDEID^. THE NIGHT HERON. THE GREY NIGHT HERON, THE NIGHT RAVEN. Nycticorax griseus. The Heron came from the Witch-pule tree. The Hotilet frae Deadivood-howe ;The au Id grey Corbie hoverit aboone. While tears downe his cheeks didjlowc. The Gloamyne Buchte. A SPECIMEN of this very rare bird was shot while sittingon the top of a tall oak-tree at the Hirsel, by the Earl ofHome, on the 25th of May 1822. It was a male, and waspresented to the Museum of the University of Edinburghby his Lordship. A female was wounded by Lord Home onthe same day, but it fell amongst a bed of reeds and couldnot be found, though a very diligent search was made for it.^The Night Heron appears to have occurred only seven tunesin Scotland.^ It is not so large as the common species, andbreeds in several parts of Europe. 1 Newcastle Magazine for July 1822, and Dr. Jolinstons MS. Notes. 2 Yan-ells British Birds, fourtli edition, vol. iv. (1884-85), p. HERODIONES. ( 53 ) ARDEID/E. THE COMMON BITTERN. BULL O THE BOG, BUTTER-BUMP, BITTER-BINN, BOG-BUMPER, BOG- BLUTTER, BOG-JUMPER, BOG-DRUM, MIRE-BUMPER, MIRE DRUM, MOSS-BUMMER, BUMPY-COSS, BUMBLE. Botaurus ^t Bull 0 tlie Boff, Clje ^iu 2Dcum. No more the screaming Bittern bcllotving harsh,To its dark bottom the shuddering marsh. Leyden, Scenes of Infancy. Until the early years of the present century, when BillieMire was drained, that extensive and almost impassablemorass was a favourite haunt of innumerable wild-fowl, andabove their various weird cries at night the loud boom orbellow of the Bittern could be heard in spring coming fromthe great reed beds which surrounded the deep black poolsof the bog—the bird on this account being known by thecountry people in the neighbourhood as the Bull o the Bogor the Mire Drum.^ As Billie Mir
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