NORTON SOUND, AND LESSER BUSTARD. ^ 521 



XVIII. BUSTARD. Gen. Birds, XXXIX. 



I Am forry that I have it not in my power to do more than afcer- 186. Nortoh 

 tain that a bird of the Bustard genus is found in North Ame- Sound. 



rica. Captain King was fo obliging as to inform me, that he faw 

 on the plains near Norton Soundy N. lat. 64 1> great flocks of a 

 large kind. They were very fhy ; ran very faft, and for a confiderablc 

 ■way before they took wing ; fo that he never could get one ihot. 



I often meet with the word Outarde, or Bujlard, among the French 

 voyagers in North America ; but believe it to be always applied to 

 a fpecies of Goofe. 



The Great Buftard, Br. Zool. i. N" 98, is frequent ov-er all the 

 defert of Tartary, and beyond lake Baikal. Is a folitary bird j but 

 colledts into fmall flocks at the time of its fouthern migration^ and 

 winters about 4/?r^r«K*. 



A. Lesser Bustarb, Br. Zool. i. N° 99. 

 Tetrao Tetrax, Faun. Suec. N" 196. 

 La Petite Gutarde ou la Cane-petiere, De Bujhn, ii. 40. — Pl.EtiL 10. 25. — Lev.Mus. 



With crown, back, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings, ferru- 

 ginous and black j primaries black at their ends, white at their 

 bottoms; the fecondaries quite white: neck black, marked near the 

 top and bottom with a white circle : breafl and belly white : middle 

 feathers of the tail crofl^ed with ruft and black, the refl: white. 

 Female entirely ferruginous and black, except wings and belly. 

 Size of a Pheafant. 



Appears in Sweden rarely in the fpring: not traced further north. Plack. 



Very frequent in the fouthern and fouth-weft plains of Ruffia, and in 

 fmall flocks when it migrates. Continues a good way into the dcr- 

 ferts of Tartar;^ ; but is never feen in Sibiria. 



• Extrails, 143. 



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