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Genus HOUBAEA, B^k 



Houbara macqueeni {Gray 6)- Hardw.). 



Houbaia macqueeni, A. Neicton, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 397, pi. xxxix. fig. 5; 



Hume ^- Mars/i. Game Birds hid. i. p. 17 (1879); Barnes, Journ^ 



Bomb. Kilt. Hist. S'C. vi. p. 12, pi. — . tig:. 837J1891) : Sharpe, Cut. 



Birds B. M. xxiii. p. •.^\>i (1894): Oates, Game' Birds Ind. i. p. 4U5 



(1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 17o (1899). 

 Otis macqueeni, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 39.5 (1876) ; Seebohm, Brit. 



Birds, ii. p. .:91, pi. 21 (1884) ; id. E<j<js of Brit. Birds, p. 90, pi. 2^, 



tig-. 1 (1896). 



The eggs of the Indian Houbara Bustard are closely elliptical 

 in form and possess very little gloss. The ground varies from stone- 

 colour to dull olive-brown, and the markings are more distinct than 

 is usually the case with the eggs of the Bustards. They consist of 

 spots and blotches of rather dark brown and pale underlying 

 purple, very evenly distributed over the whole shell, f^pecimens 

 measure from 2-3 to 2-ob in length, and from 1-65 to 1'85 in. 

 breadth. 



2. Mesopotamia. Euphrates P]xped. 



3. iJir, Euphiates Valley, 25th April. Capt. J. A. Douglas [P.]. 



1. Koweik, Persian Gulf. W. D. Cumming, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Altai MoLmtains, 1.5tb May Seebohui Coll. 



( Tuncre). 

 3. Altai Mountains, June Seebohm Coll. 



( Tancre). 



Houbara undulata {Jacq.). 



Otis hubara, Thien. Fortpfiunz, (/es. To//, tab. Ivi. fig. 4, a, b (184.5-54) ; 



Bree, Birds Eiir. iv. p. 4, pi. — (1867 1 ; 2nd ed. iv. p. 155, pi. — 



(1875). 

 Houbara undulata, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vor/. tab. 45. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 



Salvia, I/jis, 1859, p. 353 ; Tristram, Jbis, 1860, p. 75 : Sharpe, Cat, 



Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 320 (1894) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 176 (1899). 

 Otis undulata. Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 391 (1876). 



The eggs of the Houbara Bustard are on the whole paler than 

 those of the foregoing species, but otherwise inseparable from them. 

 Eight examples measure from 2-'3 to 2-55 in length, and from 1*7 

 to 1-8 ill breadth. 



2. North Africa. Gould Coll. 



1. Morocco, 7th April. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Algeria {J. H. Guniei/). Seebohm Coll. 



1. I'laiu of Koumila, Algeria, 21st ^lay Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (O. Salrin). 



1. The Harakta, Ala-eria, 10th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O.S.). 



2. Egypt (S. Stafford Allen). Seebohm Coll. 



