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i. 
CHILI 
B 
DiscripTion. 
Place. 
2, 
ARABIAN 
B. 
Dracrirrion. 
BUS TFT AOR DD 
Genus LIX. BUS TARD. 
N° x. Chili B. N° 2. Arabian B. 
Otis Chilenfis, Ind. Orz. ii. p. 658. 2.—Molin. Chil. (Fr. ed.) p. 241. 
HIS fpecies is larger than the Great Buftard of Europe: the bilt 
and lees fimilar to the fame parts in that bird: the colour of the 
plumage is for the moft part white; but the crown of the head and 
the forward part of the wings are grey ; and the quills black: the tail 
confifts of eighteen white feathers, and is rather fhort: the legs are 
farnifhed with three toes placed forwards, befides which is a fourth, 
fituated a little way up behind. 
It inhabits the plains of Chi, in South America, called there Piu- 
quen; moftly met with in flocks, and feeds on herbage. It does noz 
begin to pair before it is two years old: the female lays fix white 
eggs, about as big as thofe of a Goofe: is found to be eafily made 
tame, for many perfons of the country have domefticated it, in man- 
ner of other poultry. As we have not feen this bird, nor even a figure 
of it, we are conftrained to follow the name given by Molina, who 
ranks it with the Buffard; but from the circumftance of the back 
toe, we are not clear that hereafter, on our further inveftigation, it 
may with more propriety occupy fome other fituation, ) 
Otis Arabs, Fad. Oru. it. p. 659. 4 —Gerin. Orn. iii. t. 266. 
Wilde Pauw, Wild Peacock, Barrow. Trav: p. 139. 
Arabian Buftard, Gen. Syz. iv..p. 801. 3.—Id. Sup. p. 226.. 
HIS bird is faid to meafure fometimes as far as three feet and a 
half in Jength, and to expand from the tip of one wing to the 
other as much as feven feet, and that it is nearly as large as the 
Buftard': 
