LITTLE BUSTARD. 



LESSER BUSTARD. 



Oti,tetrax, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 

 Otis A Bustard. Tetrax ? 



THE great deserts of Tartary are among the principal 

 strongholds of these birds, and there vast nomade tribes ot 

 them are to be seen, wandering thence in various directions 

 to the district of the Caucasus, and especially towards the 

 Caspian Sea, the south and south-west of Russia and the 

 south of Siberia, Turkey, and Greece, and some are found also 

 in Italy, Sardinia, and Spain. They likewise are natives of 

 the north of Africa, and of Asia. 



A good many instances of the occurrence ot this bird 

 have been recorded, all of them in the winter half of the 

 year In Yorkshire one was shot January 14th., 1854, at 

 Goodmanham, near Market Weighton, by the Rev. W. Blow; 

 another, formerly, on the Wolds, and one at Boythorpe, also 

 in the East Riding, early in 1839; one near Beverley; and 

 in the winter of 1814-15 two were seen near Flamborough, 

 one of which was killed. In Northumberland two, one near 

 Warkworth in the autumn of 1821, and the other near Twizell 

 the 1st. of February, 1823. In Hampshire one at Heron 

 Court, near Christchurch, the seat of Lord Malmesbury. In 

 Essex one at Harwich in January, 1823, one at Little Clacton 

 in the winter of 1824, and one several years since at Writtle, 

 near Chelmsford. In Norfolk several have occurred, one, as 

 Mr. Robert Drane informs me, between Yarmouth and Wm- 

 terton, about the 30th. of December, 1853; it was imagined 

 to be 'some sort of Cochin- China Guinea-fowl;' also others in 

 Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. One was shot, as William 



