96 OTIT!D.€. 



Fe7nale.—T\\t female is much inferior in size to the male, generally weighing 

 only ten or twelve pounds ; there are no elongated feathers on the sides of the 

 head ; the bare parts are coloured as in the male ; the upper part of the head is 

 yellowish red, barred with black ; the foreneck greyish blue, without any red 

 at its lower parts ; the colouring of the other parts as in the male ; but the 

 black markings on the back and tail more numerous. 



Length. — To end of tail about 35 inches. {MacGillivray, vol. iv,, p. 31.) 



Hab. — According to Hume, has only once occurred w'ithin our limits in 

 1870, north of the Kabul river in Hastnagar, within a few miles of the most 

 north-westerly point of British India proper in Lat. 34° N. and Long. 71 45 E. 



122. Otis tetraX, Li7i., Syst. Nal. iii. p. 279; MacGillivrny, B. 

 Eur. iv. p. 31.; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 423; id. and Marsh., Game B. p. 4, 

 pi. ; Murray, Avif, Brit. Ind. ii. p. 573, No. 1245. — The Lesser Bustard. 



Alale in Summer. — Upper part of the head and the nape are pale reddish 

 yellow, thickly variegated with longitudinal and transverse brownish black 

 markings ; sides of the head and throat to the length of two inches greyish- 

 blue, with an inferior black margin, succeeded by a narrow ring of white, 

 extending more than an inch downwards in front in a pointed form ; middle 

 of the neck, all round, for the length of two inches and a half, deep black, 

 succeeded below by a half collar of white and another of black ; all the lower 

 parts white, excepting some feathers on the fore and lateral parts of the breast, 

 which are similar to those of the back. Upper parts, including the back, 

 scapulars, many of the small wing coverts, with the inner secondaries and their 

 coverts, light reddish yellow, beautifully undulated transversely with brownish 

 black ; the upper tail coverts with white in place of yellow ; wing with a broad 

 band of white, commencing at the carpal joint, including the alula; eight of 

 the outer secondary quills and their coverts are white at the base, chocolate 

 brown and mixed with grey towards the end, with the tip white, which 

 becomes gradually more extended on the inner primaries, of which the tenth 

 has only a narrow band of brown near the end ; tail feathers are also white at 

 the base and tip ; in the rest of their extent pale yellow, undulated with 

 black, and having three distinct transverse bands of the latter colour, the 

 lateral feathers gradually becoming more white, and losing one of the black 

 bands. 



Bill brown, greyish blue at the base, the ridge and tips dusky ; irides 

 reddish yellow ; feet light brownish grey ; scutella of toes darker ; claws dusky. 



Length. — To end of tail 18 inches ; bill along the ridge i, along the 

 edge of lower mandible i"33 ; wing from flexure lO; tail 4'25 ; bare part of 

 tibia I ; tarsus 2"66. 



Female. — The female, which is about the same size, differs in having none 

 of the blue or black so conspicuous on the neck of the male ; the upper part of 



