37t) GREAT BUSTARD. Class II. 



.-■'. : : M GENUS XV. BUSTARD. 



Bill strong, a little incurvated. 



Toes none behind. 



Thighs partly bare of feathers. 



1. Great. Otis. Tarda. O. nigro rufoque Gustarrl. Boethii, 7. and Sib. 



undulato - maculata subtus Scot. id. 



albida, capite (maris) jugu- Ediu. Tab. 73, 74. 



loque utrinque cristate. L'Outarde. Brisson av, v. 18. 



Laih. Ind.orn.658.id. Si/n. Hist, dois.u. \. t. 1. PI. 



iv. 796. Enl. 245. 



Tetrax. Athencei, lib. ix. 39S. Otis Tarda. Gm. Lin. 726. 



L'Ostarde. Belon av. 235. Faun. Suec. sp. Iq6. 



Otis, vel Bistarda. Gesner av. Trap. Kram. 355. 



484, 486. Acker-Trappe. Frisch. i. IO6. 



Otis sive Tarda. Aldr. av. ii. Scopoli, No. 160. 



39. Br. Zool. 87. plate N. Arct. 



fVil. orn. 178. ■' Zool {.375. 



Raii Syn, av. 58. , ■ ;: .; 



Descrip- XhE bustard is the largest of the British land 

 fowl ; the male at a medium weighing twenty-five 

 pounds ; there are instances of some very old ones 

 weighing twenty-seven pounds. The breadth 

 is nine feet ; the length near four. Besides the 

 size and difference of color, the male is distin- 

 guished from the female by a tuft of feathers 

 about five inches long on each side the low^er 



