284 GREAT BUSTARD. Class II. 



T,TT?i^fnT^ Strong BILL, a little incurvated. 



No back 1 OE. 



98. Great. Tetrax. Jthen^i, lib. IX. 398. L'Outarde. Brijon au. V. 

 L'Ollarde. Bekn anj, 235. 18. ////f. 4"0jj. II. 



Otis, vel Billarda. Gefner av. Otis tarda Lin. fyfi. 264. 



484, 486. Paun. Suec. /p. 196. 



Otis five Tarda. ^A/r. «-i;. II. 39. Trap. Krcun. ^^^. 



Wil. orn. 178. Acker-Trappe." Fri/ch, I. 

 Raiifyn.a'v. 58. 106. 5ro/J/, No. 160. 



Guftard. Bocthiiy 7. and Sib. Br. Zool. 87. plate N. PI 



^<^ot. 16. ^«/. 245. 



Ednxi-, Tab. j'^, 74. 



Descrip. ' I ^HE buftard is the largeft of the ^r///)^ land 

 . X fowl ; the mak at a medium weighing 



twenty-five pounds; there are inilances of fome 

 very old ones weighing twenty-feven. The breadth 

 nine feet ; the length near four. Befides the fize 

 and difference of color, the male is didinguifhed 

 from the female by a tuft of feathers about five 

 inches long on each fide the lower mandible. Its 

 head and neck are afli colored : the back is barred 

 tranfverfely with black and bright ruft color : the 



, greater quil feathers are black: the belly white : the 



tail is marked with broad red and black bars, and 

 confifts of twenty feathers : the legs duils:y. 



Female. The female is about half the fize of the male : 



the 



