210 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



and Yarkand, and in winter north-west India. Northern birds 

 are migrants, but not much is known about the extent of their 

 migrations. 



HOUBARA UNDULATA* 



452. Houbara undulata macqueenii (Gray & Hardw.) MAC- 

 QUEEN'S BUSTARD. 



OTIS MACQUEENII Gray and Hardwicke, Illustr. Ind. Zool., n, pi. 47 (1834 



India). 



Otis macqueeni J. E. Gray, Yarrell, in, p. 221 ; Saunders, p. 527. 



DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Four. One Kirton-in-Lindsey 

 (Lines.), Oct., 1847. Male adult near Redcar (Yorks.), Oct. 5, 1892. 

 Male near Spurn (Yorks.), Oct. 17, 1896 (Saunders, p. 527). Female 

 St. Fergus (Aberdeen) Oct. 24, 1898 (Saunders, p. 756). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. From west Siberia (foot of Altai, Tomsk) 

 and west Turkestan to north-west India, and Sind, Afghanistan, 

 Persia to Syria, the Khirgiz Steppes and Lower Volga. Stragglers 

 have been obtained in many parts of Europe : west Russia, Livonia, 

 Oeland, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Bohemia, Holland, Belgium, 

 France, Italy. Houbara undulata undulata, inhabits the northern 

 Sahara, and H. undulata fuertaventurce the island of Fuertaventura, 

 east Canaries. 



MEGALORNIS GRUSf 



453. Megalornis grus grus (L.) THE COMMON CRANE. 



ABDEA Gnus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 141 (1758 Europe, Africa. 



.Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Grus communis Bechstein, Yarrell, in, p. 178 ; Saunders, p. 521. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Bare vagrant. Bred East Anglia 

 up to about 1600 and subsequently regular winter- visitor (perhaps 

 also common in Ireland 12th-14th century) but for last century or 

 more only irregular. Has occurred most counties England ; rarely 

 Wales (last Anglesey, May, 1908) ; rarely Scotland (latest Pentland 

 Skerries, May, 1903, Shetlands, May, 1906, Lewis (0. Hebrides), 

 May 1906) ; very rarely Ireland (latest Tipperary, Sept., 1906, 

 Donegal, June, 1896). Bones found in cave in Clare. 



* The genus Houbara appears to be fairly separable from Otis, if various 

 genera of Bustards are admitted. Macqueen's Bustard is very closely allied 

 to the north-west African Houbara Bustard, and can only be looked upon 

 as a subspecies of the latter. The alleged differences of the " key " in the 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus., xxni, are not quite correct. E.H. 



I The name Grus, Pallas 1766, is a synonym of Psophia, and recognizing this 

 fact, Gray, in 1841, introduced Megalornis for the Cranes. See Nov. ZooL, 

 1910, p. 502. E.H. 



