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STRUTHIONID.E, 



tail-feathers barred transversely with dusky grey ; legs, toes, 

 and claws, brown. 



The whole length of the male bird forty-five inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, twenty-four 

 inches and a half: the first quill-feather shorter than the 

 second ; the second shorter than the third or the fourth, 

 which are the longest in the wing. 



The whole length of the female is thirty-six inches. 

 From the joint to the end of the wing, nineteen inches and a 

 half. The females generally do not exhibit the lateral 

 plumes from the chin, but in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society of Bordeaux, M. de Rochebrune has remarked that 

 when the female has arrived at her full growth, at the age of 

 three or four years, she has the same external characters as 

 the male, only somewhat less developed. 



Mr. Selby observes that the young at a month old are 

 covered with a buff-coloured down, barred upon the back, 

 wings, and sides with black. 



AVant of sufficient space here obliges me to transfer the 

 representation of the pouch in the male of the Great Bustard 

 to page 375. 



The outline below is from the breast-bone of a female of 

 the Great Bustard, half the natural size. 



