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elongated moustachial feathers white ; the lower part of the 

 neck anteriorly is pale yellowish red ; the forepart of the breast 

 pale greyish blue, fading into white, of which colour are the 

 other lower parts, excepting the sides of the lower neck and 

 body, which are light yellowish red, barred with black, each 

 feather having two subterminal unequal bars, and generally 

 several spots ; the tail feathers are similar, but tipped with 

 white, and having the base of that colour ; the outer wing- 

 coverts, secondary coverts, and inner secondary quills are 

 white, the former tinged with grey ; the primary quills brown- 

 ish black, with the shafts white. 



Length to end of tail from 40 to 48 inches. 



Female. — The female is much inferior in size to the male, 

 generally tveighing only ten or twelve pouuds ; there are no 

 elongated feathers on the sides of the head ; the bare parts 

 are coloured as in the male ; the upper part of the head is 

 yellowish red, barred with black ; the foreneck greyish blue, 

 without any red at its lower part ; the colouring of the other 

 parts as in the male ; but the black markings on the back and 

 tail more numerous. 



Length to end of tail about 35 inches. — Macgillivray, 

 Vol. IV., 31. 



836 ter — Otis tetrax, Lin. 



Male, in Summer. — The bill is brown, greyish blue at the 

 base, with the ridge and tips dusky; the irides reddish yellow; 

 feet light brownish grey ; scutella of toes darker ; claws dusky ; the 

 upper part of the head and the nape are pale reddish yellow 

 thickly variegated with longitudinal and transverse brownish 

 black markings ; the sides of the head and the throat to the 

 length of two inches greyish blue, with an inferior black 

 margin, succeeded by a narrow ring of white, that colour extend- 

 ing more than an inch downwards in front, iu a pointed form. 

 The middle of the neck, all round, for the leugth of two inches 

 and a half is deep black, that colour being succeeded below by 

 a half collar of white aud another of black ; all the lower 

 parts are white, excepting some feathers on the fore and lateral 

 parts of the breast, which are similar to those of the back. The 

 upper parts, including the back, scapulars, many of the small 

 wing-coverts, with the inner secondaries and their coverts, may- 

 be described as light reddish yellow, beautifully undulated trans- 

 versely with brownish black ; the upper tail-coverts with white 

 in place of yellow ; on the wing is a broad baud of white, com- 



