Bustard. RASORES. OJIS. 447 



LITTLE BUSTARD. 



Otis tetrax, Linn. 

 PLATE LXV. 



Otis tetrax, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 2G4. 3 Faun. Suec. No. 19C Gmel. Sjst. 



1. p. 723. sp. 3 — Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. G59. sp. 3. 

 Otis minor, Rail Syn. p. ,59. 2 Will. p. 129. t. 32 — Briss. v. 2. p. 24. 2. 



t. 2. f. 1. 2. 

 La Petite Outarde ou Cannepetiere, Buff. Ois. v. 2. p. 40 Id. PI. Enl. 25. 



old male, and pi. 10. female. 

 Outarde Cannepetiere, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 2. p. 507. 

 Der Kleine Trappe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 1446. t. 45. female. — 



Meyer, Tasschenb. v. 1. p. 309. 

 Little Bustard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 99 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 321- A.— Lath. 



Syn. 4. p. 799. 2 — Letvin's Br. Birds. 4. t. 40 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 174. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet — Id. Supp Beivick's Br. Birds. 1. t. p. 330. fe- 

 male. 



This is a bird of a very handsome plumage, and must be Occasional 

 considered one of our rarest visitants. Recurring only to the 

 product of later years, two specimens are mentioned by Be- 

 wick, as having fallen under his inspection, one of which, 

 now in the collection of John Trevelyan, Esq. of Walling- 

 ton, was taken alive upon Newmarket Heath, and survived 

 for a very few weeks in confinement. Montagu alludes to 

 three or four instances of its capture ; and I am enabled to 

 add two more, of individuals that were killed in Northum- 

 berland. One of these, in the possession of his Grace the 

 Duke of Northumberland, and from the tints of its plu- 

 mage, apparently a female, was shot near Warkworth, in the 

 autum of 1821 ; the other was killed on the 1st of Febru- 

 ary 1823, near Twizell, and is placed in my collection. This 

 bird, although destitute of the peculiar markings about the 

 head and neck that distinguish the male in his adult state, or 

 rather perhaps at a particular season, proved, however, to be 

 of that sex, by the unerring test of dissection. This fact, 

 corroborated by the case mentioned in the Supplement to Dr 

 Latham's General Synopsis, of a bird of this species, killed 



