RUFFED BUSTARD. 155 



Order XIT.— CURSOJRES. 



Family OTIDIDyE. fBona^mrte.J 



Genus Otis. ( Linnceus.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak shorter, or not exceeding the length of the 

 head, straight, conic, compressed, the point of the upper mandible curved. 

 Nostrils oval, open, lateral, and a little removed from the base. Feet long, 

 naked above the knee. Three toes, all in front, short, united at the base, 

 and bordered with a membrane. Wings moderate, the first quill half the 

 length of, and the second rather shorter than the third, which is the longest 

 in the winar. 



RUFFED BUSTARD. 



Otis lioubara. 



Otis hoiihara, et rhaad, Gmelin. 



Psophia undulata, Jacquin. 



Chlamydotis houbara, Lesson. 



Hoiihara undulata, Bonaparte. 



" houbara. Gray; Hand List. 



Oiitarde houbara, Of the French. 



Kragentrappe, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak long and much depressed at the base; a crest 

 of white feathers on the vertex, and a long and strong mass of brownish 

 black and white feathers hanging as a pendant from the back of the neck 

 on each side. Length twenty-four inches; from carpus to tip fourteen inches; 

 tarsus four inches; middle toe two inches; beak two inches and one tenth. 



The RufFed Bustard, or, as it was also called by Latham, the 

 Undulated Trumpeter, is only an accidental visitor in Europe. It is 

 however found wandering from its African home into Spain, Portugal, 



