This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
A wading bird of the Heron family, now very scarce in England. It has a booming cry, which when heard at night sounds so dismally that the bird has been named the night raven. The American bittern is called the stake-driver or meadow-hen.
 
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