1 68 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Family Qtididee. 



GENUS CL. OTIS, Linn%us (1766). 



268. Otis tarda, Linn. GREAT BUSTARD. 

 Hab. Southern Palaearctic region. 



As an indigenous species this fine bird became extinct 

 in England rather more than fifty years ago. It is now 

 known as a very irregular straggler in winter. 



269. Otis tetrax, Linn. LITTLE BUSTARD. 

 Hab. Temperate Europe, N. Africa and S.W. Asia. 

 An irregular winter visitor ; has occurred on nearly fifty 



occasions in England, but only four or five times in 

 Scotland and six times in Ireland. 



GENUS CLI. HOUBARA, Bonaparte (1831). 



270. Houbara maequeenii (Gray). MACQUEEN'S 

 BUSTARD. 



ffab. Central Asia. In winter reaching India. 



An example was shot in Lincolnshire (1847), and a 

 second in Yorkshire (1892). 



ORDER 



Family CEdicnemidee. . 



GENUS CLII. CEDICNEMUS, T&wminck (1815). 



Bill shorter than head, straight, strong ; base of upper 

 mandible depressed ; culmen arched, slightly decurved 

 at tip ; gonys with an abrupt angle and ascending to tip. 

 Nostrils lateral, nearly in middle of upper mandible. 

 Tarsus rather long ; hind toe absent. 



