Larrie Bustarp. CURSORES. OTIS. 331 
Otis minor, Raii, Syn. p. 59. 2.—Will. p. 129. t. 32.—Briss. v. 2. p. 24. 2. 
3 La Pedi AO htewis ou Caunepetiére, Buff: Ois. v.2. p. 40.—Id. Pl. Enl. 25. 
old male, and pl. 10. female. 
Outarde Cannepetiére, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 2. p. 507. 
Der Kleine Trappe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 1446. t. 45. female.— 
Meyer, 'Tasschenb. v. 1. p. 309. 
Little Bustard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 99.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 321. A.—Lath. 
Syn. 4. p. 799. 2.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 4. t. 40.—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 174. 
Mont. Ornith. Dict.—/d. Supp.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. p. 330. fe- 
male. 
This is a bird of a very handsome plumage, and must be 
considered one of our rarest visitants. Recurring only to the 
product of later years, two specimens are mentioned by BE_ 
wick, as having fallen under his inspection, one of which, 
now in the collection of Joun TREVELYAN, Esq. of Walling- 
ton, was taken alive upon Newmarket Heath, and survived 
for a very few weeks in confinement. Monracu alludes to 
three or four instances of its capture; and I am enabled to 
add two more, of individuals that were killed in Northum- 
berland. One of these, in the possession of his Grace the 
Duke of NortuHuMBERLaAND, and from the tints of its plu- 
mage, apparently a female, was shot near Warkworth, in the 
autumn of 1821; the other was killed on the Ist of Febru- 
ary 1823, near Twizell, and is placed in my collection. 'This 
bird, although destitute of the peculiar markings about the 
head and neck that distinguish the male in his adult state, or 
rather perhaps at a particular season, proved, however, to be 
of that sex, by the unerring test of dissection. This fact, 
corroborated by the case mentioned in the Supplement to Dr 
Latuam’s General Synopsis, of a bird of this species, killed 
in Sussex, having the apparent plumage of the female, but 
also, on dissection, proving otherwise, has led me to doubt 
the assertion of various writers, that all the individuals killed 
in Britain had been of the female sex; and I can only ac- 
count for the assertion, by concluding it to have arisen from 
the contrast observable between these specimens and the male, 
as seen in his summer’s attire, without the more certain crite- 
rion above mentioned having been attempted. 
Occasional — 
visitant. 
