1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
SUN-BITTERN, the Eurypyga helias of ornithology, a bird that has long exercised systematists; and one whose proper place can scarcely yet be said to have been determined to everybody's satisfaction. According to Pallas, who in 1781 gave (N. nordl. Beytrage,\o\.\i. pp. 48-54, pi. 3) a good description and fair figure of it, calling it the Surinamische Sonnenreyger," Ardea helias, the first author to notice this form was Fermin, whose account of it, under the name of " Sonnenvogel," was published at Amsterdam in 1759…
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- Vol. 26, pp. 92-92