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THE RUFFED BUSTARD. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill a little convex. 



Nostrils open, oblong. 



Tongue floping on each fide near the end, and pointed. 



Legs long, and naked above the knees. 



Toes only three ; no back toe. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CM A R A C T E R, &c. 



Yellowifh Buftard, fpotted with brown, with very long rufF-like neck-fea- 

 thers ; the longer remiges marked by a patch of white. 



Ruffed Buftard. 



Lath. 2. p. 805. 

 Le Houbara, ou petite Outarde huppce d'Afrique. 



Buff. ois. 2. p. 59. 



AMONGST the birds of the genus Otis the moft fingular, as well as 

 perhaps the rareft, is the fpecies reprefented on the prclent plate, which 

 is diftinguillicd from every other kind by a very large ruff of greatly leno-th- 

 ened feathers furrounding the lower part of the neck, and hanging down on 

 each fide the breaft. This ruff can at pleafure be elevated or depreffed 

 according to the will of the bird, and confifts of plumes of different colours : 

 ' thofe 



