Fam. Otididae. — 957 — Gen Otis. 



Nr. 719. Otis senegalensis. 



Otis senegalensis, Vieill. — Less. Encycl. I. p. 333. — Less. Com- 

 plcm. de Buff. II. p. 251. — Schleg. Cat. Cursor, p. 4. (not.) — 

 Otis Barrowii, I. E. Gray. — Lissotis semitorquata, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 

 Nr. 549. — Otis Rhaad, Rüpp. Mus. Senkenb. II. p. 230. t. 15. — 

 Rüpp. Syst. Ueb. Nr. 393. — Lissotis senegalensis, Heugl. Syst. 

 Uebers. Nr. 548. — Eupodotis senegalensis, Hartl. W. Afr. Nr. 596. 



— Less. Descr. Mammif. & Ois. p. 235. — Gurn. Ibis 1868. p. 48. 



— Hartl. Cab. Journ. 1854. p. 212. — Otis Rhaad, Heugl. Cab. 

 Journ. 1855. p. 65. — Otis semitorquata, Heugl. Cab. Journ. 1863. 

 p. 162. — ? Otis Rhaad, Lath. Syn. IV. p. 805. — ?Lath. Gen. Hist. 

 of Birds Vol. 8. p. 368. - ?Blue nacked Bustard, Ibid. p. 360. — 

 ILe Rhaad, Buff. Hist. nat. Ois. fol. edit. Vol. II. p. 134. — Layard, 

 S. Afr. Nr. 545. — Trachelotis rhaad, Rchbch. Handb. fig. 2164. — 

 Chlamydotis senegalensis , Licht. Nomencl. Mus. Berol. p. 88. — 0. 

 Rhaad, Strickl. Ann. & Mag of Nat. Hist. 1852. (Coli. Petherick) 

 p. 348. — Eupodotis senegalensis, Gray, Gen. Birds III. p. 533. — 

 Gray, Hand-list III. p. 8. — Heugl. Peterm. Geogr. Mitth. 1869. 

 p. 413. 



Laete rufescente-fulva, colore ^fumoso delicatissime vermicu- 

 lata et adspersa; loris, regione parotica et ophthalmica, genis, 

 mento gulaque albis; fronte, vertice, nuchae plumis elongatis, se- 

 mitorque infragulari striaque-suboculari nigris; sincipite colloque 

 delicate cinereis; colli basi, auchenio pectorisque lateribus fulvo- 

 rufescentibus ; hypochondriis cinerascentibus ; abdomine et subcau- 

 dalibus albis, fulvo-tinctis ; supracaudalibus partim fumose vermi- 

 culatis; remigibus fumoso-nigricantibus, in pogonio interno, basin 

 versus, obsolete albido-marginatis ; rectricibus isabellino-cineras- 

 centibus, fuliginoso-vermiculatis, fasciis 1 — 2 anteapicalibus fuligi- 

 noso-nigricantibus ; rostro corneo-fulvido , apicem versus magis 

 nigricante ; iride pallide umbrino-flavida ; pedibus et unguibus fla- 

 vescentibus; — long. tot. V. 8". — rostr. a fr. 1". V". — al. 

 10". - caud. 4 3 / 4 ". — tars. 3". V". 



?: Pileo brunnescente ; gula alba; macula infragulari nigra 

 milla. 



