OTIS TARDA. To 
[§ 3208. Zwo.—Naquab (Nuqb), near Nimrood. Found by 
Abid ibn Hassan. 
[§ 3209. 7wo.—Khudder Elias, 25 May, 1860. Found by 
Jusim ibn Khudder. 
[§ 3210. Two—Naiffa, plain of Nimrood, 30 May, 1860. 
Found by Midhj ibn Mahmood. 
All these eggs (§§ 38201-3210) from Mr. Christian A. Rassam, 1861. 
Learning from Mr, Edward Blyth’s article (Calcutta Review, No. 55, March 
1857, p. 151) that the Bustard hawked in Mesopotamia was the Houbara 
macqueent, I was anxious to get some of its eggs, and Mr. Malan recommended 
me to write to Mr. C. A. Rassam, the British Consul at Mosul. This I did in 
February 1860, and in due time heard from him that he would do his best for 
me. In the course of the following winter, I received a box containing 24 eggs, 
all numbered or ticketed, the tickets being attached to the eggs by pink silk, 
passed through the holes at which they were blown. Unfortunately I had not 
known that Habara or Hubdra in Arabic was a generic name for all Bustards, 
and consequently all but one of the specimens sent were those of Otis tarda. The 
delay in these eggs reaching me was caused by the disturbances at Damascus, 
by which way they were sent, and there they ran great risk of destruction. 
The kindness of Mr. F. C. Burkitt, a competent Arabic scholar, has enabled me 
to transcribe correctly from the tickets the names of the persons and places 
thereon written. | 
[§ 3211. One—* South Russia.” From Herr A. Heinke, of 
Kamuschin, through Dr. Albert Giinther, 1863. ] 
[§ 3212. Zwo.—Near Seville, Andalusia, 21 April, 1869. From 
Mr. Howard Saunders. 
A pair. My. Saunders had several other pairs, all of which were carefully 
marked so as to be distinguished. ] 
[§ 3218. One.—* Norfolk, 1824. From the Rev. William 
Turner’s Collection,” through Mr. John Clarke, 1891. 
Of this egg I first heard in 1885 from Colonel Feilden, who wrote to me that 
he had been to see a collection of eggs belonging to Mr. John Clarke, formerly 
(as it afterwards appeared) of Wigston Hall in Leicestershire, but then living 
at Great Yarmouth :—“ The best eg¢, which is marked in Mr. Clarke’s hand- 
writing, is a Bustard’s from Norfolk, taken in 1824, which was in the collection 
