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GREAT BUSTARDo 
(Otis Tarda.) 
Ot. corpore supra nigro rufoque undulato et maculato, suhtus 
albido ; remigibus primoribus nigris. (Mas. capite juguloque 
utrinque cristato.) • 
Bustard with the body above undulated and spotted with black 
and rufous 5 beneath whitish ; the primary quills black. 
{Male with the head and jugulum crested on both sides.) 
Otis Tarda. Linn. Si/st. Nat. 1. 264. 1. — Gmel. Spst. Nat^ 1, 
722. 1. — Rail. Syn. 58. a. 1. — Briss. Orn. 5 . 18. l.—Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 2 . 658. 1 . — Leach Cat. Mus. Brit. p. 27. 
Outarde. Buff. Ois. 2 . 1. pi. 1. — Buff. PI. Enl. 245. 
Outarde barbue. Temm, Man. d’Orni. 317- 
Great Bustard. Penn. Brit. Zool. 1. QS.pl. AA. — Penn. Arct. 
Zool. 2 . \SQ.—Edw. pi. 79, 80 . — Alb. Birds. 3 . pi. 38 , 39. — 
Lath. Gen. Syn. A. 7Q6. 1. — Lerv. Brit. Birds. A. pi. 139. — 
Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 173. — Bult. Cat. Dors. p. 6. — Mont. Orn. 
Diet. 1. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Betv, Brit. Birds. 1. 314. — 
Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. 268. 
This species is the largest of the British birds, 
the male frequently weighing so much as twenty- 
five or thirty pounds, attaining the height of four 
feet, and his wings expanding about nine : on 
each side of the lower mandible of the beak is a 
tuft of long feathers, constructed of delicate and 
unconnected webs : the head, neck, breast, and 
edge of the wing, are grey, inclining to brown on 
the tip of the head : the back and lesser wing- 
coverts are elegantly barred with black and pale 
ferruginous : the greater coverts are pale cine- 
