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BUSTARD. 



5- 

 INDIAN B. 



Description. 



Female. 



Place. 



Indian Budard, Gen, Sjii, iv. p. S04. N° 5. 



'T^HIS bird, which is called in India, Churge, weighs from twelve 

 to fourteen pounds. The male has the head, neck, bread, and 

 under parts, black, but the latter incline to a(h-colour: the back 

 beautifully mottled with reddifh brown and black, as in our Buf- 

 iard : wing coverts white: quills black: bill and legs pale afh- 

 colour. 



The female is very like our female Buftard. The general co- 

 lour pale afh, clouded and undulated with darker and blackilht 

 head, neck, and belly, plain. 



Thefe are found in plenty in various parts of India, where they 

 are eaten, and much efleemed *. I ftill retain an idea of the 

 probability of this and my White-eared Buftard being the fame, 

 as they differ very little, except in the white patch on the ear^ 

 one from the other. 



10. 

 PASSARAGE B. 



Description. 



CIZE of ths Li i lie Buftard: length eighteen inches. Bill long 

 and {lender, brown and white : the head, neck, breaft, and 

 belly, black : on the ears a large white patch : junftion of the 

 neck and back white : the whole back, wings, and tail, black,, 

 with a net-work of the fineft lines of black and brown furround- 

 ing the meflies of black : the greater wing coverts are white : ort 

 the hind head are four pairs of capillary feathers ; each pair of dif- 

 ferent lengths, and dilating at their ends into a lance-lhaped tuft j. 

 the longed four inches, the Ihorted fcarce rifing in fight : the legi 

 are drong, and of a pale yellow : toes divided to their origin. 



* Mr. MMlettn, 



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