MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD. 



EUFFED ErSTARD. 



Otis marqneen.ii, GRAY. 



Otis A Bustard. MacqueeniiOf Macqueen. 



THIS species lias been confounded with the Houbara or 

 Ruffed Bustard, but the length of the wings, which in the 

 present one reach quite to the end of the tail, at once dis- 

 tinguishes them. 



The only British, or, I believe, European specimen of this 

 Bustard at present on record, was shot at Kirton in Lindsay, 

 Lincolnshire, on the 7th. of October, 1847, by Mr. George 

 Hansley; it is now in the Rudston Read collection of British 

 Birds in the York Museum, where I have seen it. A very 

 excellent likeness, with an account of it, is given in 'The 

 Naturalist,' vol. ii., page 89, by my brother, Beverley R. 

 Morris, Esq. 



Macqueen's Bustard is so ver}*- closely allied to the Houbara, 

 that I should suppose that both are to be found in the same 

 districts. The latter, as those who have read the second 

 volume of Mr. Layard's deeply interesting 'Nineveh and its 

 Remains' will at once recall to mind, is very plentiful in 

 Arabia and on the wide plains of Messapotamia, where the 

 wandering tribes hunt them with Hawks trained for the 

 purpose. Doubtless they are to be met with likewise in the 

 more northern regions where the renowned Hippomolgians 

 find pasture for the noble animals who are their all. Glorious 

 scenes are those eastern lands, and wonderful as are the 

 monuments of three thousand years antiquity which there 

 bring, as it were, the departed Assyrians again before us to 

 admire their vast and so enduring works, still more striking 



