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of this creft are black ; thofe below grey, banded with black : 

 back, wings, and tail, brown : baftard wing white, margined with 

 grey : belly white : toes three in number, all placed forwards, 

 and united to the firft joint. 



This bird inhabits all the Philippine IJlands and the Cape of Place. 

 Good Hofe. It is called Peacock by the natives, but on what ac- 

 count is very uncertain ; or whether its a6bions or attitudes cor- 

 refpond with thofe of that bird. The above is Sonnerat\ defcrip- 

 tion, by which it feeons to me clearly to be the Arabian Bujiard, 

 and not a diftinft fpecies. 



White-eared Buftard, Gex. Syn, iv. p. 802. N° 4. ' «, 



WHITE-EARED 

 * I 'HIS bird (the Knorrbane) has the art of concealing itfelf per- ^° 



fcdlly till one comes pretty near it j when on a fudden it foars 

 aloft and almoft perpendicular into the air, with a fharp, hafty, 

 quavering fcream of hrrb, korrh, which is an alarm to the ani- 

 mals throughout the whole neighbourhood *. 



Our laft voyagers met with a Bujiard on the coaft o( New Hol- 

 land, in Buftard Bay, which weighed fixteen pounds j but we have 

 no other account of it, than its having a black band acrofs the 

 breaft. We can likewife add, on the authority of the late Cap- 

 tain King, that he met with great flocks of a large kind of Buftard 

 on the plains near Norton Sound, north latitude 647. No defcrip- 

 tion whatever could be obtained of the fpecies, as they were very 

 (hy, ran very faft, and for a confiderable time before they took 

 wing, fo that he could never get one fliot at them f. 



• &farrm, Vcj, i. p. 153, ■{■ JrM, Zoo/, 



Gg 2 Indiaa 



