CHLAMYDOTIS. (EDICNEMUS. 205 



Chlamydotis undulata. (Extra-limital.) 



Chlamydotis undulata macqueeni. 



MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD. 



Otis macqueenii J. E. Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. ii. 

 1834, pi. 47 : India. 



Houbara macqueeni ( Gray) B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 154 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. 1894, p. 318. 

 Otis macqueeni Saunders, Ufanual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 527. 



Macqueeni, in honour of the donor of the specimen described by J. E. Gray. 

 C/. ' List of Specimens of Birds B. M.', pt. iii. 1844, p. 57. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bare Visitor. It 

 lias occurred four times in Lincolnshire, Oct. 1847 ; York- 

 shire, Oct. 1892 and Oct. 1896 ; Aberdeenshire, Oct. 1898. 



General Distribution. Macqueen's Bustard breeds in 

 western Siberia from Turgai to Lake Zaizan and the south- 

 western Altai Mountains, southwards to Transcaucasia, 

 Transcaspia, Turkestan, eastern Persia, Afghanistan, and 

 perhaps north-western India. In winter it visits north- 

 western India, Baluchistan, Persia, and Syria. It has 

 occurred in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, 

 nnd Italy. In north Africa and the eastern Canary Islands 

 it is represented by the allied form C. undulata ; the bird 

 from the latter group of islands has been separated. 



Suborder CEDIGNEML 

 Family (EDICNEMID^. 



Genus (EDICNEMUS Temminck, Man. d'Orn. 1815, p. 321. 

 Type : GK. cedicnemus (Linn.). 



(Edicnemus, from oloos = a swelling, and Kv^fir) = leg ; from the thicknesa 

 of the proximal end of the tarsus in the young. 



