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Pleydell's "Birds of Dorset;" A. C. Smith's "Birds 

 of Wilts ;" and Prof. Newton's invaluable " Diction- 

 ary of Birds." An article by Mr. W. P. Pycraft in 

 Natural Science, Nov. 1898 (pp. 313-323), sums up 

 what is known concerning the gular pouch of the 

 Bustard, the existence of which has been alternately 

 affirmed and denied, and contains the latest results 

 obtained from a dissection made by him of a speci- 

 men in which a pouch was undoubtedly present, as 

 had been previously demonstrated by Cullen, Ihis, 

 1865, p. 143, and Flower, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 747; 

 see also Newton, Ibis, 1862, pp. 107-127, and 

 "Diet. Birds," art. "Bustard." 



LITTLE BUSTARD. Otis tetrax, Linnaeus. PL 24, figs. 

 6, 7. Length, 18 in. ; wing, 9-5 in. ; tarsus, 2-5. 



An occasional winter visitant. When the first 

 edition of this Handbook was published in 1872 

 more than forty instances of its occurrence in Eng- 

 land w ere known to me : since then I have noted 

 many others ; amongst the latest, one shot at Felt- 

 well, Jan. 25, 1898, and another, a male in summer 

 plumage, killed at Kessingland, near Lowestoft, in 

 May of the same year. 



In Scotland it is very much rarer. One was 

 obtained near Montrose, Dec. 1833 ; a second near 

 St. Andrew^s, March 6, 1840 {Jide Macgillivray) ; a 

 third in the parish of Halkirk, Caithness, in June 

 1848, of which a detailed account is given by 

 Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown ("Fauna of 



