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OTIS TETRAX, 
OTIS TETRAX, Linnus. 
LITTLE BUSTARD. 
§ 3215. Five—tTangier. From M. Favier, 1845. 
This I consider a beautiful series. They vary, as do eggs of the 
Great Bustard, from green to brown. Is the latter colour the result 
of incubation ? The brown one with the markings at the large apex 
is remarkable, so is the elongated specimen, and it appears that all 
in the same nest were similarly elongated. 
[It is not certain that all these five were brought from Tangier in 1845, 
though two of them certainly were. The others may have been received 
from M. Favier in 1847, but two of them bear his well-known label. A note 
in the Egg-book, written apparently in 1847, shews that Mr. Wolley had 
had fifteen eggs of this species in his possession altogether, but he must then 
have parted with most of them, though to whom is not clear, except that 
Mr. Milner and Mr. Clennell Wilkinson seem each to have had one. | 
§ 3216. One.—From M. Lefevre, 1847. 
M. Hardy [of Dieppe] called him [M. Lefevre] a thief, and said 
he would change the name of eggs to suit his customers (?). He is 
publishing a work on eggs. Dr. Pitman named him to me. 
[ Whatever character M. Lefévre might bear, there can be no mistake about 
thisegg. His work was the little-known and incomplete ‘ Atlas des CZufs des 
Oiseaux d’Europe,’ of which only seventeen parts seem to have appeared 
(1845-8). ] 
§ 3217. Oue.—* Caithness,” 1848. 
This ege I obtained in the year 1848 from Mr. Cramond, the 
dancing master at Thurso. He Jet me take any of his eggs I chose, 
as he did not value them. He had few eggs, all taken either in the 
neighbourhood or in Orkney, and there were none among them of 
which this could be thought a variety. I saw how like it was toa 
Little Bustard’s, but I thought no more of it for a long time after- 
wards, having made up my mind without much consideration that it 
must be a variety of the Common Gull or Whimbrel. It was not till 
a year or two afterwards that I began to think it might really be a 
Little Bustard’s, and only this present year, 1853, in consequence of 
