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a glance from any other by its large size, combined with its black- 

 crested crown. The sexes are alike in plumage but the male ver}- 

 greatly exceeds the female in size. The genus JSuiJodotis contains 

 altogether four species, two African, one Indian, and one, which, 

 as I have already said, is very closely allied to the latter, Austra- 

 lian. 



EUPODOTIS EDWARDSI. 



The Great Indian Bustard. 



Otis edwardsii. — Gray, in Hardw. 111. In. Zool. 1. (1830) ; Hume, 

 Str. Feath. 1, p. 227; Adam, ibid, p. 393; id, ibid, ii, p. 339. 



JEupodotis edwardsii. — Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, p. 258. 



Jj^uijodotis edivardsi. — Jerdon, B. of I. iii, p. 607 ; Stoliczka, J. 

 A. S, Bengal, xli, p. 250 ; Hume, Nest & Eggs, I. B., p. 557; id, 

 Str. Feath. i, pp. 125,237; Butler, ibid, iv, p. 9; Ball, ibid, 

 p. 234; Fairbanks, ibid, pp. 262, 266 ; Hume& Marsh, Game B. of 

 I. i, p. 7 ; Davids & Wend, Str. Feath. vii, p. 87 ; Ball, ibid, p. 266: 

 Tweedie, ibid, p. 528; Hume, ibid, viii, p. Ill ; Wilson, ibid, 

 p. 490 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, etc., p. 56 ; id, Oat. B. of South Bom. 

 Pres., p. 71 ; Davidson, Str. Feath. x, p.'318; Murray, Vert. F. of 

 Sind, p. 217 ; Barnes, B. of Bomba}^, p. 320 ; Gates in Humes N. & 

 E, 2nd Edit, iii, p. 375 ; Blyth, B. of India, iv, p. 194; Sharpe, B. 

 M. Cat. xxiii, p. 325, id. Hand. List i, p. 176 ; Gates, Cat. Eggs B. 

 M., ii, p. 90 ; Gates, Game-Birds i, p. 399 ; Barnes, Bom. Nat. His. 

 Journal, i, p. 57 ; Rayment, ibid, ix, p. 107. 



Vernacular names. — Ghorar, Kathiatvar ; Tugdar, Punjah ; Gur- 

 ayin, Hariana ; Sohum, Gughunhher ; Hukna, H. ; Serailu, H. 

 (Nerbudda) ; Bherar, Saugor ; Hum, Malir. ; Mardonk, Maldhonk, 

 Karadhonk, Karlunk, Deccan ; Tokdar of Mahomedan Falconers ; 

 Gurahna, Sind ; Bat-Meka, Bat-myaka, Tel.; Batta-mekha, Yanadi ; 

 Gunad, Fardi ; Kanal-Mjrle, Ta^tn. : Heri-hukki, Arl-kujina-hukki, 

 Yereladdu Can. 



Fescription, Adult onale. — Crown from bill to nape black with a 

 certain amount of white stippling near the forehead and with the 

 nape mixed black and white, remainder of head and neck white, 

 pure in very old birds but faintly barred with brown or brownish 

 black, more especially on the upper neck, in j^oung birds. Back, 



