330 CURSORES OTIS. Great Bustrarp. 
the occiput. Chin-feathers and moustaches composed of 
long wiry feathers, with the barbs disunited and short. 
Fore part of the neck clothed with a naked. bluish-black 
skin, extending upwards towards the ear-coverts, and 
covering the gular pouch. Sides of the neck white, 
tinged with grey ; lower part of the neck fine reddish- 
orange. At the setting on of the neck, or between the 
shoulders, is a space destitute of feathers, but covered 
with a soft grey down. Scapulars buff-orange, barred 
and spotted with black. Back, rump, and tail-coverts 
reddish-orange, barred and variegated with black. Les- 
ser wing-coverts fine buff-orange, barred with black- 
Greater coverts, and some of the secondaries bluish- 
grey, passing towards the tips into greyish-white. Quills 
brownish-black, with their shafts white. ‘'l'ail-feathers 
white at their bases, passing towards the middle into 
brownish-orange, with one or two black bars; the tips 
often white, and, when the feathers are spread laterally, 
forming a ségment of a circle. Upper part of the breast 
reddish-orange ; lower part, belly, and vent white. Legs 
black, covered with round scales. Irides reddish-brown. 
Female. Prats 64*. The female bird has the head, and the fore 
part of the neck, of a deeper grey; and is without the 
moustaches and gular pouch. The back of the lower 
part of the neck reddish-orange. The other parts of 
her plumage are similar to the male. Is seldom more 
than one-third of the size of the other sex. 
The young, at a month old, are covered with a buff-coloured 
down, barred upon the back, wings, and sides, with 
black. 
Young. 
Little Bustard.—Otis tetrax, Linn. 
PLATE 65. 
Otis tetrax, Linn. Syn. 1. p. 264. 3.—Faun. Suec. No. 196.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 
_ p. 723. sp. 3.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 659. sp. 3. 
