574 OTITID/E. 



becomes gradually more extended on the inner primaries, of which the tenth 

 has only a narrow band of brown near the end ; tail feathers are also white at 

 the base and tip ; in the rest of their extent pale yellow, undulated with 

 black, and having three distinct transverse bands of the latter colour, the 

 lateral feathers gradually becoming more white, and losing one of the black 

 bands. 



Bill brown, greyish blue at the base, the ridge and tips dusky ; irides 

 reddish yellow ; feet light brownish grey ; scutella of toes darker ; claws dusky, 



Length, To end of tail, 18 inches ; bill along the ridge, i, along the 

 edge of lower mandible 1*33 ; wing from flexure IO; tail 4*25 ; bare part of 

 tibia I ; tarsus 2*66, 



,Female. The female, which is about the same size, differs in having none 

 of the blue or black so conspicuous on the neck of the male ; the upper part of 

 the head, its sides, and the neck all round, are pale reddish yellow, variegated 

 with dark brown, each feather having a broad median longitudinal band and 

 several transverse bars ; throat yellowish white ; upper parts as in the male, 

 many of the feathers with large patches of black in the middle ; wings and 

 tail as in the male, but with the white less extended and barred with black ; 

 lower parts yellowish white \ feithers of the breast and sides with transverse 

 black lines ; lower tall coverts black shafted. In winter the male resembles 

 the female. (Mac Gill,) 



Hab. The Punjab and N.-W, Provinces, A regular and tolerably abun- 

 dant winter visitant, Said to breed in Afghanistan. 



Gen. Eupodotis. Less. 



Bill long, pointed, straight, the tip curved ; legs long and strong ; male 

 with a pouch ; wings ample. 



1246. Eupodotis Edwardsi, Gray, III. Ind. Zool pi. 59; Gould, 



C. B. pi. 72 ; Jerdon, B. 2nd. iii. p. 607 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., &c., Sind, 

 p. 204; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 217 ; Hume and Marsh., Nests and Eggs iii. 

 p, 557; id., Game Birds, i. p. 7, pi, (Tokdar, Sind.) The INDIAN BUSTARD. 



Male, Top of head and crest black ; sides of the face, neck all round, 

 breast and entire lower parts white ; the feathers of the breast and lower part 

 of the neck long and hackled, those of the breast covered with minute dusky 

 mottlings ; a dark band across the breast ; back, scapulars, wing and upper 

 tail coverts brown, pale buff, or grey brown, beautifully mottled and vermicu- 

 lated with minute black striae ; primaries snuff brown, darker on their inner 

 webs, and tipped with white ; some of the inner ones with 3 4 white patches 

 on their inner webs ; secondaries slaty, much irrorated basally, and broadly 

 tipped with white ; tertials as long as the primaries, concolorous with the 

 back, also the lesser wing coverts ; median coverts black, tipped with white ; 



