512 BIRDS. GRALUS. 32,. 33, 34. 



throat dirty-white, with a black mark extending to the ears : cheeks 

 spotted brown and white : breast pale yellow-red, with a few 

 black lines : belly and vent paler : quills dusky, with yellowish- 

 white marks ; tail dusky, more or less 1 tipt with white: legs yd- . 

 lowish, without 1'pur in the male. 



32. OTIS. Bustard. 



148. O. Tanla. With undulate dusky and rufous streak?, 

 beneath whitish: male with a crest-like tuft each 

 side the lower mandible. 



Great Bustard. Br. Zool. t. 44. Leii'in t. 140. Walcot. t. 173. 



Length near 4 feet : extent 9 : weight 24-28 pounds. 

 mil dusky : iris light hazel : head and neck cinereous : lower-part of 

 the neck and throat ferruginous : greater iving-c everts grey : quills 

 black, slightly tipt with white : middle tail-feathers ferruginous 

 with black bars, outer-ones whitish with black bars : legs dusky. 



Female half the size of the male : crown orange with black lines: 

 lower-part of the neck before grey : lower mandible without the 

 tufts of feathers. 



149. O. Tetrax. Ferruginous mottled with brown and 

 crossed with dusky lines, beneath white : lower man- 

 dible of the male without the crest-like tuft. 



Little Bustard. Ltwin t. 141. <&t'. f. 251. Walcot t. 174. 



Length 17 inches : about the size of the phcafant. 

 Bill pale brown; crown and chin fpotted ferruginous and black . 

 sides of the head rufous-white : neck, in the male, black bounded 

 above and below with white: greater quills black with a white 

 Int'e; fecondaries white: 4 middle tail-J'eather.s tawny with -black 

 bars ; the rest white more or less barred with black : legs grey. 



Fema!* with the neck like the back. 



150. O. (Edicnemus. Pale reddish-brown, with dusky 

 spots; chin, belly, and vent, white with a few dusky 

 sneaks : 2 primary quill-feathers black, with a white 

 bar in the middle. 



Thick-kneed Bustard. Leuiin t. 142. Albin t. 69. Walcot t. 163. 



Length 18 inches : extent 36 : weight 18 ounces. 



Pill yellowish at the bafe, dusky at the tip : iris yellow: head much 

 rounded: beneath the eyes a bare yellowish-green fpace, with a 

 pale streak above and beneath them : wing-coverts with a whitish 

 band ; tail- feathers tipt with black, except the 2 middle-ones ; the 

 3 outer barred with black and white, the rest with brown: iegs- 

 yellow; the knees thick,. as if fwoollen : claws dusky. 



ORDER VI. GRALL.E. 

 33. PLATALEA. Spoonbill. 



151. PI. Leucorodia. White, with a bright orange spot 

 at the angles of the bill : hind-head crested. 



White Spoonbill. Br. Zool. <?/>/>. t. 9. Lew in t. 143. 



Length 40 inches : extent 52 : weight 3 pounds and a half. 

 Bill 7 inches long, 2 inches wide in the broadest part, brown or 

 black, with an orange fpot near the^tip of the upper mandible, 

 rough towards the bafe : tongue shorl, heart-shaped : iris grey, or 

 reel : orbits nearly bare, black : chin f^mctimes black : plumage 

 white, w.ith sometimes the tips of the quills black : legs 6 inches 

 long, black, naked half way up the thighs. 



34. ARDEA. Heron. 



152. A. Grus. Body cinereous : hind-head bare of fea- , 



