. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Sun-bittern {Wurypyga helias). Eussia and the Lower Danube. The Bittern (Botawus stel-laris), a shy bird, noted for its peculiar guttural, booming cry,now only a winter visitant to England, is an example of a shghtlydifferent form. Of Herons and Bitterns there are altogetherabout eighty-two different species. The Bird known as theSun-bittern {Blurypyga helias) is very unlike the true has a very thin neck, and is marked in a pecuhar way withtransverse stripes of white, brown, and black, so that, once 38 ELBMBSTS OF OENITHOLOGT. seen, its ap
. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Sun-bittern {Wurypyga helias). Eussia and the Lower Danube. The Bittern (Botawus stel-laris), a shy bird, noted for its peculiar guttural, booming cry,now only a winter visitant to England, is an example of a shghtlydifferent form. Of Herons and Bitterns there are altogetherabout eighty-two different species. The Bird known as theSun-bittern {Blurypyga helias) is very unlike the true has a very thin neck, and is marked in a pecuhar way withtransverse stripes of white, brown, and black, so that, once 38 ELBMBSTS OF OENITHOLOGT. seen, its appea>rance is not easily forgotten. It inhabits river-banks in South America. A very odd South-American Bird {Oaneroma cochlearid) iscalled the Boat-bill, on account of its wide and capaciousbeak. Another Bird, not less singular and with a still larger Fig. The Joat-bill (Cancroma cochlearia). beak, comes from Africa, where it inhabits the banks of theUpper Nile, and is even there a rare Bird. It is of large size,and its great bill resembles somewhat the jaws of a is called the Shoe-bill (Balcmiceps rex). Another AfricanBird of very much smaller size (about the size of a Crow), witha much smaller and compressed beak, is remarkable for building INTEODTJOnOIf. 39 an enormous nest, shaped like an oven, which serves for manyyears. It is ao solid that it will bear the weight of a heavyman. Mr. Layard saw one three yards long and one and a half Fig. 38.
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