286 OTIDID^. 



black transverse bars ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and entire 

 throat light grey, with elongated bristle-like feathers on each side 

 of the chin ; lower throat orange-chestnnt, forming a band across 

 the fore neck, which is washed with light grey, the sides of the 

 neck with numerous small bars of black ; sides of upper breast 

 sandy rufous barred with black ; remainder of under surface of body 

 pure white : " bill leaden grey, horn-black at the tip ; feet earthy 

 brown ; nails horny black ; iris dark brown ; eyelid with white 

 feathers " {J. F. Naumann). Total length about 42 inches, culmen 

 2-1, wing 23-5, tail 10, tarsus 6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller, lacking the whis- 

 kers of the sides of the face, and having the grey of the throat 

 continuous, the sides of the neck rufous, with a few black bands, the 

 rufous colour descending on to the sides of the fore neck. Total 

 length about 30 inches, culmen 2-1, wing 19'o, tail 8-5, tarsus 5-3. 



Young. Generally similar to the old female, but much paler and 

 more freckled on the upper surface, and having nearly all the 

 wing-coverts barred with dusky brown, the white secondaries also 

 freckled and barred with black, or showing a large black subterminal 

 bar ; crown of head like the back, blackish and blotched with sandy- 

 buff markings ; hind neck greyish ; a tolerably broad eyebrow as well 

 as the sides of the face and throat greyish white ; the lower throat 

 and fore neck light sandy buff, obscurely freckled with dusky cross 

 jnarkings ; sides of the fore neck more sandy rufous, and the 

 blackish cross bars more distinct. 



IJab. Southern Europe and Northern Africa, extending to Central 

 Asia and N.W. India. 



a. Ad. St. Europe. Mr. Brandt. 



b, c. Pull. St. Europe. Purchased. 

 d, e. Pull. St. Europe. Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Wiltshire. Montagu CoU. 



ff. ? ad. sk. Spain. Old Coll. 



h. $ ad. ; t, k. Andalucia. W. J. Buck, Esq. [P.]. 

 Pull. St. 



Z, m, w. c? ad. sk. Andalucia. W. J. Buck, Esq. [P.]. 



o,/). Juv.etpuU. Ilungavy, June, Aug. Hungarian Nation;xl Mu- 

 sk, seum [P.]. 



q. (S imm. sk. Bala Murghab River, Dr. Aitchison [C.]. 



Afghanistan. 



r. 2 j^i'^- sk. Hiisht-nagar, Murdan, Hume Cull. 



Dec. 1^3 {J. A. Johnson). 



2. Otis dybowskii. 



Otis tarda (ncc L.), Fall. Zoogr. Bosso-Aslat. ii. p. 96 (1826, pt.) ; 



Schrenck, lieis. Amurl. ii. p. 405 (1860) ; Radcle, JReis. Sibir. ii. 



p 308 (1868) ; JDyb. Sf Parve.v, J. f. O. 1868, p. 337 (Dauria) ; 



Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, p. 99 ; SwinJi. Ibis, 1874, p. 424 (Chefoo, May), 



1875, p. 129 ; Blakist. ^ Pnjer, Ibis, 1878, p. 226 (Hiogo, Dec.) ; 



Slater Ibis, 1882, p. 435 (Hankow Plains) ; Blakist. Amended 



List B. Jajxin, pp. 13, 43 (1884 : Nagasaki). 

 Otis dybowskii, 2\icz. J. f. 0. 1874, p. 331 (Dauria) ; id. Bull. Soc. 



