Crossword-Solution: NYCTICORAX 10 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 24

Thompson it is flown at kites and antelope: in Sind it is used upon night-heron (nyctardea nycticorax), floriken or Hobara (Otis aurita), quail, partridge, curlew and sometimes hare: it gives excellent sport with crows but requires to be defended.

Smaller kinds, as Garzetta, Nycticorax, arrive from the North in February, but commonly pass on still more southward, whence they return in May.

Audubon[83] relates that a night-heron (_Ardea nycticorax_, Linn.) which he kept tame, used to hide itself when a cat approached, and then “suddenly start up uttering one of the most frightful cries, apparently enjoying the cat’s alarm and flight.” The common domestic cock clucks to the hen, and the hen to her chickens, when a dainty morsel is found.

Have we not run to death those compound epithets, "long-legged," "black-tailed," "white-shouldered," and the like? Even on the assumption--not proven in this case--that the word conveys an inference not strictly accurate, there are precedents for its retention, _e.g._, Caprimulgus, Goatsucker, Nycticorax, Bernicla, the Bernacle Goose, Oyster-catcher, and many more.

This curious bird, the _Cancroma cochlearia_ of most authors, is a native of tropical America, and what is known of its habits shows that they are essentially those of a _Nycticorax_.[5] Bones of the common heron and bittern are not uncommon in the peat of the East-Anglian fens.