OT1STETRAX 725 



Hob. Dauria, the Ussuri country ; wintering in the north 

 and middle of China, Manchuria, Corea, and Japan. 



In habits it is said to resemble our European bird, and like 

 that it frequents open plains. Its eggs, which also closely 

 resemble those of 0. tarda, are usually deposited in May or in 

 June, in a depression scratched in the ground lined with dry 

 grass, 4 being the usual number. 



TETRAX, Leach, 1816. 



1012. LITTLE BUSTARD. 



TETRAX CAMPESTRIS. 



Tetrax campestris, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. &c. Brit. Mus. p. 28 (1816) ; 

 Otis tetrax, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 264 (1766) ; Naum. vii. p. 52, 

 Taf. 169 ; Hewitson, i. p. 287, pi. Ixxiii. fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of E. iv. 

 pi. 269 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 18 ; Dresser, vii. p. 383, pi. 509 ; 

 (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiii. p. 287 ; Blanford, F. Brit. Ind. 

 Birds, iv. p. 193 ; Saunders, p. 525 ; Lilford, v. p. 5, pi. 2. 



Canepdti&re, French ; Cizdo, Portug. ; Si-son, Span. ; Gallina- 

 pratajola, Ital. ; Zwergtrappe, German ; Dvergtrappe, Dan. ; 

 Strepet, Russ. ; Maesgaek, Tartar; Chota-tilur, Punjab. 



< ad. (Spain). Crown sandy brown marked with black ; sides of head; 

 and throat plumbeous, marked with black, this colour extending in a V- 

 shape down the neck ; below this a white collar, then glossy black all 

 round lower neck and on fore breast, and then another white collar ; upper 

 parts sandy brown barred and blotched with black ; primaries black, but 

 white at base, the inner ones tipped with white ; secondaries white, the inner 

 ones like the back ; larger wing-coverts white marked with black, the 

 lesser like the back; middle tail-feathers like the back, the outermost 

 white barred with black ; under parts white ; bill horn becoming black at 

 tip, base of lower mandible yellowish ; legs ochreous ; iris reddish brown.. 

 Culmen 0'70, wing 9'50, tail 4'50, tarsus 2'20 inch. In the winter the 

 sides of the head, neck and fore neck are streaked and mixed black and 

 buff, the breast thin and throat white. The female in spring has the 

 upper parts paler, the sides of the head and neck sandy brown striped 

 with black, the chin and under parts white, the breast tinged with ochre 

 and marked with black. 



Hob. Central and Southern Europe, but as a straggler as far 

 north as Sweden and Great Britain ; North Africa ; Asia Minor, 

 and Central Asia, east to Afghanistan and N.W. India. 



Like its larger ally this Bustard inhabits open plains, more 

 especially where the soil is under cultivation, and is extremely 



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