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[Genus BALEARICA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 511 (1760). 



BaUarica = from the Balearic Isles. 



Balearica pavonina. Balmabic Cmanb. 

 Ardea pavonina, Linnam, S. N. i. p. 233 (1766). 

 Grus pavonina, Harting, p. 146. 



Favomna = of or coloured like a peacock, pavo, Tads. 



Oae has been reported as obtained in Ayrshire, September 

 17, 1871 (Ibis, 1872, p. 201). It inhabits Northern and 

 Western Africa, rarely, if ever, straying to the continent of 

 Enrope.] 



Family OTIDID^. 

 Genus OTIS, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 264 (1766). 



Otis = mVi's, a kind of Bastard with long ear-feathers, known to the Greeks ; 

 from ois, genit. wros, an eai\ 



Otis tarda. Great Bustard. 



Otis Tarda, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 264 (1766). 



Otis tarda, Naum. vii. p. 12 ; Macg. iv. p. 30 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 285 ; Gray, p. 133 ; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 415 ; id. ed. 3, 

 ii. p. 428; Gould, iv. pi. 17; Harting, p. 41; Dresser, 

 vii. p. 369. 



The Great Bustard, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 362. 



Tarda, the Spanish name, according to Pliny {Hist. Nat. x. p. 29). A Celtic 

 or Basque word, bearing no relation to tardus = slow. Tarda and Bistarda 

 are always used as substantives, like the French Outarde (from avis tarda, 

 through the ProTen9al Austarde, as avis struthio became Autruche in French 

 and Ostrich in English) and our Bus-tard. 



Formerly a resident in England and Ireland, but long 

 extinct in the latter country. In England it used to breed 

 not uncommonly, but has been gradually exterminated, the 

 last nest having been found within the last half-century. 

 Now it is only a rare straggler from Continental Europe. 

 It inhabits the temperate portions of the Paliearctic Region. 



