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Genus CHLAMYDOTIS. 



In the species of the genus Chlamydotis the sexes are alike, the 

 female differing only from the male in being slightly smaller. It is 

 distinguished from all other Otidiclw by the presence of a curious 

 crest which consists, not of a collection of feathers, either few or 

 numerous, massed together, but of numerous isolated feathers, thinly- 

 webbed at the base and completely separated and independent of each 

 other. There is a thick ruff of black and white feathers on either 

 side of the neck, and the feathers of the lower neck are also 

 lengthened. 



The genus contains but one species, Chlamydotis undulata, of 

 which one sub-species, Cii. macqueenii, inhabits Central Asia and 

 visits India in the cold weather. 



CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA MACQUEENII. 

 MACQUEEN'S BUSTAED OE HOUBAEA. 



Otis macqueenii, Gray ct Hardiv. Ind. Zool. ii, p. 47 {ItiSi) ; Hulton, 

 J. A. S. B. svi, p. 786 ; Blijth, Cat. p. 258 ; Gould, B. of Asia, vii. 

 pi. 58; Hume, Ibis, 1868, p. 211; Blanford, East Pers. ii, p. 287; 

 Heath, J. B. N. H. S. vi, p. 372. 



Houbara macqueenii, Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 612 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 

 xli, p. 258 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 227 ; Adam, ibid. p. 393 ; Le Mes. ibid- 

 iii, p. 379 ; Butler, ibid, iv, p. 9 ; Hume, ibid. p. 9 ; Butler, ibid, v, 

 p. 231 ; Hume d- Marsh. Game-B. i, p. 17 ; Hume, Sir. Fealh. vii, 

 p. 67 ; id. ibid, viii, p. 3 ; Butler, Cat. B. of Sind, p. 56 ; Hume, 

 Cat. No. 837 ; Doig, S. F. ix, p. 281 ; Murray, Vert. Faun. Sind, 

 p. 218; Barnes, J. B. X. H. S. vi, p. 12; id. B. of Bom. p. 321; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 318 ; Blanford, Avifauna B. I. iv, p. 197 ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-L. i, p. 175; Gates, Cat. Eggs B. M. i, p. 89; Finn, 

 In. Waders, p. 122; Gates, Game-B. I. i, p. 405; Stuart Baker, 

 J. B. N. H. S. xxi. p. 325 (1912) ; Delmi-EadcUffc, ibid, xxiv, p. 162 

 (1915) ; Currie, ibid. p. 574 (1916) ; Tomlinson, ibid. p. 828 (1916) ; 

 Ludloio, ibid. xxv. p. 304 (1917) ; Thornhill, ibid. p. 487 (1918). 



Eupodotie macqueenii, Gray, Hand-L. B. iii, p. 9. 



