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massed together, but of numerous isolated feathers, thinly webbed 

 at the base and completely separated and independent of each other. 

 There is a thick ruff of black and white feathers on either side of 

 the neck, and the feathers of the lower neck are also lengthened. 



The genus contains but two species, the one, Houbara macqueenii, 

 inhabiting Central Asia and visiting Northern India in winter and, 

 the second, Houbara undulata, inhabiting the countries surrounding 

 the Mediterranean. 



Houbara macqueenii. 



Macqueeii's Bustard. 



Otis macqueenii. — Gray & Hardw., 111. Ind. Zool,, ii, p. c. 47 ; 

 Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. xvi, p. 786 ; Blyth, Cat. B. M. As. Soc, 

 p. 258; Gould, B. of Asia, vii, pi. 58; Hume, Ibis, 1868, p. 241; 

 Blanford, East Persia, ii, p. 287; Heath, Jour. B, N. H. Soc, vi, 

 p. 372. 



Houbara macqueenii. — Jerdon.,B. of Ind., iii, p. 612; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. Beng. xli, p. 258 ; Hume, Str. Feath, i, p. 227; Adam, 

 ibid, p. 393 ; LeMes, ibid, iii, p. 379 ; Butler, ibid, iv, p. 9 ; Hume, 

 ibid, p. 9; Butler, ibid, v., p. 231 ; Hume & Marsh, Game B. of 

 Ind, i, p. 17; Hume, Str. Feath. vii, p. %7 ; id, ibid, viii, p. 3; 

 Butler, Cat. B. of Sind, p. 56; Hume, Oat. No. 837; Doig, Str. 

 Feath, ix, p. 281 ; Murray, Vert. Faun, Sind, p. 218 ; Barnes, Jour. 

 Bom. Nat. His. Soc, vi, p. 12 ; id, B. of Bombay, p. 321 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M., xxiii, p. 318; Blanford, Avi. B. I., iv, p. 197; Sharpe 

 Hand.-L. B. M., i, p. 175; Gates, Eggs of B. M., i, p. 89; Finn, 

 Indian Waders, p. 122; Gates, Game B. India, i, p. 405. 



Eu]Dodotis macqueenii. — Gray, Hand-L. B., iii, p. 9. 



Vernacular names. — Tilur, Punjab ; Talur, Sindhi ; Hobara or 

 Obara. P. 



I)escri]ption — Adult male. — Forehead, sides of the crown and whole 

 upper plumage sandy-buff, very finely vermiculated with black, the 

 general aspect being sandy ; on the mantle and scapulars the black 

 vermiculations form into fairly definite black bars across the feathers, 

 but these are absent on the lower back and rump ; crest of long, 

 narrow feathers, white on the basal and black on the terminal 

 halves ; upper tail coverts like the mantle but more rufous. Tail 

 sandy rufous, the vermiculations almost absent at the base but 



