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ALECTORIDES. 



OTIDIDiE. 



OTIDIDjE. 



Otis tetkax, Linnseus.* 



THE LITTLE BUSTAED. 



Otis tetrax. 



The Little Bustard can only be considered an acci- 

 dental, and, generally, a winter visitor to this country. The 

 male has never, so far as the Author and the Editor are 

 aware, been killed here in the plumage assumed during the 

 breeding- season ; nor have the nest and eggs been found ; 

 and most of the specimens, of which many are recorded, 



* Otis Trti'ox, LiniiKus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 264 (1766). 



