CHLAMYDOTIS. — CEDICNEMUS. 205 



Chlamydotis undulata. (Extra-limital.) 

 Chlarnydotis undulata macqueeni. 



MaCQUEEN'S BfSTAED. 



Otis macqueenii J. E. Gray, Illustr. Indian Zool. ii. 

 1834, pi. 47 : India. 



Houbara macqueeni ( Gray) ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 154 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. 1894, p. 318. 

 Otis macqueeni Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 527. 



Macqueeni, in honour of the donor of the specimen described by J. E. Gray. 

 Cf. ' List of Specimens of Birds B. M.', pt. iii. 1844, p. 57. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Viaitor. It 

 lias occurred four times — in Lincolnshire, Oct. 1847 ; York- 

 shire, Oct. 1892 and Oct. 1896 ; Aberdeenshire, Oct. 1898. 



General Distribution. — Macqueen's Bustard breeds in 

 ■we>tern Siberia from Turgai to Lake Zaizan and the south- 

 western Altai Mountains, southwards to Transcaucasia, 

 Transcaspia, Turkestan, eastern Persia, Afghanistan, and 

 perhaps north-western India. In winter it visits north- 

 western India, -Baluchistan, Persia, and Syria. It has 

 occurred in Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, 

 and Italy. In north Africa and the eastern Canary Islands 

 it is represented by the allied form C. undulata ; the bird 

 from the latter group of islands has been separated. 



Suborder (EBIGNEMI. 

 Family GEDICNEMID^. 

 Genus CEDICNEMUS Temminck, Man. d'Orn. 1815, p. 321. 

 Type : CE. cedicnemus (Linn.). 



OEdicnemus, from oi Jos = a swelling, and kvij^j) = leg ; from the thickness 

 of the proximal end of the tarsus in the young. 



