BUSTAKD SHOOTING. 



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Type : Otis tarda ; Europe, Asia, Africa, New Hol- 

 land. 



Note. Inhabit open plains and champaign 

 countries, where vegetation is rankly luxuriant : poly- 

 gamous ; run swiftly. 



THE LITTLE BUSTARD. 



The Little Bustard (Otis Minor). This is an 

 unfrequent British visitant ; subject to a very great 

 change of plumage, of which we cannot accurately 

 speak, since it appears in England only after incubation 

 is over, and in its more homely garb. One was killed 

 near Montrose, in Scotland, in the winter of 1833. 



