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OTIS TETRAX. THE LITTLE BUSTARD. 



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Otis Tetrax. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 264. 



Otis Tetrax. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 659. 



Little Bustard. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Outarde Canepetiere. Otis Tetrax. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 507. 



Otis Tetrax. Flem. Brit. Anim. 115. 



Little Bustard. Otis Tetrax. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. I. 447. 



Otis Tetrax. Little Bustard. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 175. 



Otis Tetrax. Bonap. Comp. List. 44. 



Male about eighteen inches long ; in summer with the 

 upper part of the head and the nape pale reddish-yellow 

 variegated ivith brownish-black, throat and sides of the head 

 light greyish-blue, a narrow ring of white on the neck, suc- 

 ceeded by a broad collar of black, below which anteriorly are 

 a half ring of white and another of black ; upper parts pale 

 reddish-yellow , transversely undulated ivith black; edge of 

 the wing, alula, outer secondary coverts, basal part and tips 

 of the quills and tail feathers, together with all the lower 

 parts of the body, white. Female with the head, neck, upper 



