WHITE-EARED BUSTARD. 
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and the wings, are yellow-ochre, sprinkled with 
delicate black stripes, but the middle of each 
feather is plain : the quills are white, black towards 
their tip, which is pure white : the tail-feathers 
are of a red-ochre colour, wdth three broad stripes 
of dusky grey ; and the whole of them, except the 
two middle ones, are tipped with white : the beak 
is dusky brown : the feet greenish. Its length is 
about two feet. The young males have the sides 
of the head more striped with zigzag lines of red 
and dusky: the white feathers. of the crest are 
shorter, and marked towards their tips with fine 
dusky stripes : the long feathers on the sides of 
the neck are shorter, and varied with deep brown. 
The female is unknown. 
This bird inhabits Arabia and the northern 
parts of Africa, and it sometimes migrates into 
Spain and Turkey : its manners are unknown, 
save that it resides in the deserts. 
WHITE-EARED BUSTARD. 
(Otis Afra.) 
Ot. nigra ^ dorso cinerco-undulato, auribus alhis. 
Black Bustard, with the back undulated with cinereous ; the 
ears white. 
Otis afra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 724. 4. — I.cdh. Ind. Orn. 2. 
dop. 5. 
V. XI. P. II. 
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