OTIDIDA. 527 
MACQUEEN’S BUSTARD. 
OTIS MACQUEENI, J. E. Gray. 
This species, which might with advantage be called the Asiatic 
Ruffed Bustard, occasionally wanders across Europe to England. 
In October 1847 a bird—now in the Museum of the Philosophical 
Society at York—was shot in a stubble-field near Kirton-in-Lindsey, 
Lincolnshire; on October 5th 1892, an adult male, now in the 
Newcastle Museum, was obtained near Redcar; and on October 17th 
1896, a third was secured, near the Spurn, Holderness. 
It is tolerably certain that the five Ruffed Bustards recorded from 
Northern Germany between the years 1800 and 1847 were all 
examples of O. macqgueent, and not of its closely-allied African re- 
presentative, O. undudata : the existence of two distinct species being 
unknown to Naumann and others. A genuine Macqueen’s Bustard, 
killed near Utrecht in December 1850, is in the Museum at Leiden, 
while three specimens have been obtained in Belgium, one on the 
