ORDER GRALL/E. 305 



the Wild Peacock of Barrow's Trav. 139. Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Ne?v olland Bustard. Lath. H. n. 3. Ot. Aus- 

 tralis. Gray. 



Back and tail, brown-grey, white speckled ; crown, 

 black ; neck, dun colour, black speckled ; wing- 

 coverts, white, black and bluish spotted ; belly, white; 

 five outer quills, brown ; rest, grey, spotted and 

 tipped with white ; tail, white tipped. Length, three 

 feet ; tarsus, seven inches. New South Wales. Gen. 

 Davis. 



White-chinned Bustard. Lath. Otis Indica. Shaw. 

 Miller. Cy. Ph. t. 33. 



Brown, black waved; beneath, whitish-brown; throat, 

 white ; crown and band on side of head, black, 

 India. 



Cape Bustard. Otis Caffra. Lich. 1793. 



Above, ash, black waved, streaked; eyebrows, chin, 

 nape, band on sides of neck, and belly, white ; 

 crown, quills, and tail, white, with three black bands. 

 Male, throat, slate-coloured : female, band on crown 

 and throat, black w^aved. Cape. Length, thirty- 

 eight, tarsi, six inches. 



See also Marhled Bustard. Lath. Hist. viii. 362. 



The Plovers. Charadrius. Lin.* 



are also without the thumb, and have a moderate 



bill, which is compressed and swollen at the end. 



). 



* Charadrius, the Greek name of a nocturnal and aquatic bird, derived 

 from x.»p«5pre. Gaza translates it Hiaticula. 



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