;^22 OTTbTDM. 



a. Ad. St. Spain. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Tunis. L. Fraser [C.]. 



c. Imm. sk. Tripoli, Oct. 27 (H. Warring- Gould Coll. 



ton). 



d. Juv. sk. Egypt, June. Purchased. 



e. Imm. sk. Alexandria, Dec. 2. Tweeddale Coll. 



12. EUPODOTIS. Typ^ 



Eupodotis, Zm. iJei). Zool. 1839, p. 47 E. arabs. 



Choriotis, Bp. Ann. Set. Nat. Paris (4) i. p. 148 (1854) . . E. arabs. 



Eange. Africa and Arabia ; Indian Peninsula ; Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No black patch across the chest or on the sides of 

 the latter ; wing-coverts white at the ends, the 

 black subterminal bars nearly obsolete or absent 



altogether ; bars on neck faintly indicated arabs, p. 322. 



6. A black patch across the chest, or on the sides of 

 the latter. 

 a'. Greater wing-coverts white, freckled with black, 

 tipped with white, before which is a very broad 



and distinct black bar kori, p. 324. 



v. Greater wing-coverts ashy black, with a white kg^^^ardsi,^.'^"^^- 

 spot at the ends j australis, p.' 328. 



1. Eupodotis arabs. 



Ai-abian Bustard, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 12, pi. 12 (1743) ; 



Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 801 (1783). 

 Autruche volant du S(5uegal, Adanson, Voy. Seneg. 4to, p. 127 



(1757). 

 L'Outarde d'Arabie, Briss. Orn. v. p. 30 (1760). 

 Otis arabs, Linn. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 264 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 723 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 295 (1818) ; 

 Cretzschm. in Eiipp. Atlas, Taf. 16 (1826) ; Riipp. Mus. Senckenh. 

 ii. p. 215 (1834) ; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 110 (Kordofan ; Nubia ; Abys- 

 sinia) ; Levaill. jun. Expl. Sd. Alger., Ois. pi. 10 (1850) ; Hartl. 

 Orn. W.-Afr. p. 208 (1857 : Senegal) ; Heugl. Ibis, 1859, p. 344 

 (Habab ; Samhar) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 8 (1865 : 

 Senegal) ; Drake, Ibis, 1867, p. 429 (Mogadorj ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. 

 vii. p. 294 (1870: Asoos; Ain) ; Heugl. Orn. NO.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, 

 p. 946 (1873 : S. Arabia; Dahlak Isl. ; Suakin to Danakil Coast) ; 

 Koenig, J.f. 0. 1888, p. 265. 

 Le Lohong on I'Outarde hupp^e dArabie, Stiff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. 



p. 52 (1771). 

 Otis abyssinica, J. E. Gray in Gi'iffitKs ed. Cuvier An, Kingd., Birds, 



iii. p. 304 (1829). 

 Eupodotis arabs, Gray, List Grallre in Brit. Mus. p. 58 (1844) ; id. 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 533 (1845) ; Reichenb. Handb., Gall. tab. cclviii. 

 figs.' 2180-81 (1848) ; Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, Extrah. p. 101 ; 

 Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 50 (1856: Senaar to S. Nubia; White 

 Nile ; Sobat) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 8, no. 9922 (1871) ; Shelley, 

 B. Egypt, p. 227 (1872) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 20 (Aden) ; 

 Barnea, Ibis, 1893, p. 168 (Aden). 



