LITTLE BUSTARD 



LESSER BUSTARD. 



PLATE CXLVIL FIGURE I. 

 Otis tetrax, LINN^US. 



THIS species is only a rare winter straggler, not nesting 

 in this country. 



The nest, a mere hollow in the ground, is made with a 

 few dry grasses, and placed under the shelter of any suffi- 

 ciently high herbage that will conceal the bird. 



The eggs are from three to five in number, olive brown 

 in colour, sometimes varied with patches of a darker shade 

 of brown. 



VOL. II. '37 



