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INDIAN BUSTARD. 
Otis aurita. Lath. Ind. Orn. -2. 66o. 7* ? 
Pluvianus bengalensis major. Briss. Orn. 5. 82. 13- 
La Churge. Bujf. Ois. 2. 56. 
Passarage Bustard. Lath. S^n. Sup. 228. ? 
Indian Bustard. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 804. 5. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 
p. 228. — Edii'.jd. 250, 
The male of this species has the heach neck, 
breast, and under parts of the body, black ; the 
latter inclining to ash-colour : the back elegantly 
mottled with reddish brown and black : the wing- 
coverts white : quills black : beak and legs pale 
ash-colour. The female has the prevailing colour 
of the plumage pale ash, clouded and undulated 
with darker and blackish : head, neck, and belly, 
plain. 
The Passarage Bustard of Latham appears to be 
a variety of the old male of this species : it is 
about the size of the Little Bustard : its length is 
eighteen inches : beak slender, brown and white : 
the head, neck, breast, and belly, black : on the 
ears a large white patch : junction of the neck 
and back white : the back, wings, and tail, black, * 
reticulated with fine lines of brown : the sfreater 
wing-coverts are white : on the hind head are four 
pairs of capillary feathers, each pair of different 
lengths, and dilating at their end into a lance- 
shaped tuft ; the longest four inches, the shortest 
scarcely larger than the rest of the feathers of 
that part : the legs are strong, and pale yellow. 
Both these birds inhabit India, and have a crreat 
affinity to the White-eared Bustard, but they differ 
in many respects, particularly in having the wing- 
