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MACQUEEX^S BUSTARD. 

 Otis macqueeni, J. E. Gray. 



This species, which might with advantage be called the Asiatic 

 Ruffed Bustard, occasionally wanders across Europe to England. 

 In October 1847 a bird — now in the ^Museum of the Philosophical 

 Society at York — was shot in a stubble-field near Kirton-in-Lindsey, 

 Lincolnshire; on October 5th 1892, an adult male, now in the 

 Newcastle Museum, was obtained near Redcar; and on October 17th 

 1896, a third was secured, near the Spurn, Holderness. 



It is tolerably certain that the five Ruffed Bustards recorded from 

 Northern Germany between the years 1800 and 1847 were all 

 examples of O. 7nacqueeni^ and not of its closely-allied African re- 

 presentative, O. iindulata : the existence of two distinct species being 

 unknown to Naumann and others. A genuine Macqueen's Bustard, 

 killed near Utrecht in December 1850, is in the Museum at Leiden, 

 while three specimens have been obtained in Belgium, one on the 



