and other Indian Bustards. 517 
on horseback by our sporting countrymen, and fired at with 
pistols. I never saw their egs or nest. 
The bustard makes an excellent dish at table, particularly 
a young hen; the flesh of the breast is full of triangular cavi- 
ties. [adda sketch (fg. 125.) of the bill, of the natural size. 
I shall venture a few remarks on the account of the bustard 
in the above-mentioned 21st part of Griffith’s Animal Kingdom. 
M. Cuvier’s observation (p. 301.) that * they fly but little, 
using their wings more commonly, like the ostrich, to assist 
them in running,” may be true enough of the European spe- 
cies, but is surely incorrect when generically applied. In the 
same page, after we are told that ‘the wings are short,” the 
male O'tis tarda is said to have the wing-feathers elongated, 
forming on each side a sort of mustachios.” Surely cheek- 
feathers must be meant. 
The Small Bustard of India so much prized at table, called 
churj in the Hindoostanee language, and florican by the Eng- 
lish, is of a light ochreous colour, beautifully varied and marked 
above with brown and black, the down at the base of the fea- 
thers being of a pink colour; length from bill to tail, 18 in. ; 
to claws, 22% in., but varies much in size. The ‘ Indian bus- 
tard (O'tis bengalénsis) ” (p.303.), is not the churj or “charge,” 
at least, of Southern India; but, from the indistinct descrip- 
tion, appears to bea Passurage bustard (O'tis aurita), without 
the “ bristles.” 
“‘ Passurage Bustard (O'tis aurita).” (p. 304.) This is the 
Hindoostanee /ees, called by the English black florican ; of 
