86. THE LITTLE BUSTARD. 



Tetrax tetrax, (Linn^us). 



Length of the tarsus less than one-third 



the length of the wing. 

 Exposed part of the first ten quills of 



the wing largely white. 

 No ruff down the sides of the neck. 



MALE :— The fourth quill of the wing 

 abruptly shortened. 



FEMALE :— The fourth quill of the wing 

 graduated between the third and fifth. 



Vernacular Name -.—Chota tilur, Hind. 



The Little Bustard is found in Southern 

 Europe, North Africa and Central and 

 South-Western Asia. It appears to be 

 everywhere more or less migratory, and 

 its movements are difficult to follow and 

 to understand. This Bustard visits India 

 in the winter, and is at that time fairly 

 common in the Punjab, west of the Indus 

 river, occasionally straggling into portions 

 of the North-Western Provinces. Colonel 

 Biddulph observed it at Gilgit at the end 

 of March, and conjectures that it may 



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