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in addition to the markings already described, a few streaks and 

 lines of ver}^ deep rich brown, in one or two almost black. 



The text^Tre is rather coarse, but extremely close and hard, and 

 most eggs carr}^ a very fine gloss, though this varies and is 

 sometimes practically absent. 



Otis tetrax. 

 The Little Bustard. 



Otis tetrax. — Linn., Syst. Nat., i, p. 264 (1766) ; Jerdon, B. of I., 

 iii, p. 625 ; Blyth, Ihis, 1867, p. 163 ; Beavan, ibid, 1868, p. 388 

 Blanford, East Persia, ii, p. 287 ; Scully, Str. F., iv, p. 184 ; Hume 

 ibid, vii, p. 435 ; Hume and Marsh. Game-B. i, p. 3; Hume Oat 

 No. 836 ; ibid, Str. Feath., viii, p. Ill ; Biddulph, Ibis 1881, p. 84 

 Scully, 'iMcZ, p. 586 ; Swinh. ibid, 1882, p. 119; St. John, ibid 

 1889, p. 175; Sharpe, Yark. Miss. Aves, p. 145 ; Blanford, Avi 

 B. I., iv, p. 193 ; Finn, "Indian Waders" p. 118 ; Ward, B. N 

 H. S. Journal xvii, p. 945; MitoheW, ibid, xx, p. 1154; Verner 

 " My life among the Wild Birds of Spain," p. 149 et seq_. Chap- 

 man and Buck, " Unexplored Spain," p. 262 et seq. 



Tetrax tetrax. — Sharpe, Oat. B. M., xxiii, p. 287, ibid, Hand List, 

 i, 174 ; Oates, Eggs of B. M., ii, p. 85 ; ibid, Game-B, i, p. 409. 



Vemacidar names. — Chota tihir, Obara, Punjabi; Kum-tokosi, 

 Turki ; Oharaz, Baluchi. 



Adult Male in breeding ijlumage. — General colour above sandy 

 buff, coarsely vermiculated with black, and also showing some black 

 blotches in the centre of the feathers ; rump a little grayer than 

 the back, the feathers being freckled with whitish instead of sandy 

 buff ; upper tail coverts white or white mottled with a few blackish 

 markings ; wing coverts like the back, but somewhat more sparselj^ 

 vermiculated with black ; lesser and median coverts white at the 

 ends, and more or less freckled with black ; the external coverts, 

 bastard wing and greater coverts pure white, the inner ones 

 slightly freckled or spotted with blackish ; prim arj^-co verts black- 

 ish, narrowly tipped with white ; quills white, mostly blackish 

 towards the ends, the tips of these feathers being again white, so 

 that the black mark becomes subterminal ; the outer primaries 

 blackish with white bases, the white gradually increasing towards 



