226 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



some sandy-brown feathers on the chest ; remainder of the 

 under surface of the body white ; beak and legs olive-green ; 

 irides brown. 



Entire length 25 inches ; culmen 2'1 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 14 ; tarsus 4. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 268. 



221. Otis tetrax, Linn. Little Bustard. 



According to Von Heuglin (Syst, Ueb. p. 54) this bird is to 

 be met with singly in the north-eastern portion of Lower Egypt. 



Male. — Upper part of the head and nape black, freckled 

 with sandy colour ; throat, cheeks, and ear-coverts deep slate- 

 coloui'; remainder of the neck black, with a narrow white 

 collar descending in a V-shape in front of the throat ; a broad 

 white band at the base of the latter, followed by a narrow 

 one of black ; the remainder of the upper plumage is sandy 

 brown, pencilled with black and grey and spotted with 

 black ; upper tail-coverts and all the tail-feathers, except the 

 two centre ones, tipped with white ; wings, the three outer 

 primaries dark brown, the remainder white with black ends, 

 which are again tipped with white ; secondaries white, with 

 a narrow black bar on their outer webs ; the greater wing- 

 coverts white ; underparts of the body and wings white, with 

 a patch on each side of the crop of the same colour as the 

 back; beak yellowish brown, darkest on the culmen and 

 towards the tip ; legs yellow ; irides dark brown. 



Entire length 17 inches; culmen 09; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 9*5 ; tarsus 2*5. 



Female. — No black or white on the throat, which is of the 



