botaurus

Updated: May 1, 2025

Jago, which had been killed in the Islands the last week in January, 1879." These are the most recent specimens I have been able to get any account of. The Bittern is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey. There is no specimen in the Museum. AMERICAN BITTERN. Botaurus lentiginosus, Montagu. French, "Heron lentigineux."

Cecil Smith - Birds of Guernsey (1879) : And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands

This was duly recorded by me in the 'Zoologist' for 1872, and is, I believe, the first recorded instance of its occurrence in the Channel Islands. It is not mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, and there is no specimen in the Museum. BITTERN. Botaurus stellaris, Linnaeus. French, "Heron grand butor," "Le grand butor."

Cecil Smith - Birds of Guernsey (1879) : And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands

Platalea regia, GOULD. flavipes, GOULD. Ardea cinerea? pacifica, LATH. Novae-Hollandiae, LATH. Nycticorax Caledonicus, LESS. Botaurus Australis, GOULD. Ibis Falcinellus, LINN. Numenius Australasianus. Numenius uropygialis, GOULD. Recurvirostra rubricollis, TEMM. Chladorhynchus pectoralis. Himantopus leucocephalus, GOULD. Limosa ? Glottis Glottoides.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete