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OTIS TETRAX. 



(LITTLE BUSTARD.) 



Otis tetrax, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 264 (1766). 



Tetrax campestris, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. &c. Brit. Mus. p. 28 (1816). 



Otis tetrao, Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 40 (1846). 



Otis minor, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 288. 



Outarde canepetiere, Poule de Carthage, French ; Zxvergtrappe, Jcleine Trappe, German ; 

 Avutarda pequend, Sison, Spanish ; Cizao, Portuguese ; Gallina pratajola, Italian ; 

 Pitarra, Sicilian and Maltese ; Boozerat, Moorish ; Jtfid ahd, Arabic. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Buff. PL Enl. pi. 25. fig. 10 ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. taf. 169 ; Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 269 ; 

 Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 371 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 205 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. pt. v. ; Morris, 

 Brit. Game-birds, p. 101 ; Sundev. Sv. Fogl. pi. lxxxv. fig. 1 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 36. 

 figs. 1, 2. 



3 ad. pileo summo nuchaque fulvescentibus ubique nigro variegatis, loris et regione oculari concoloribus sed 

 minus distincte notatis : gula cum gems et regione parotica cinereis : gutture imo triquetre nigro 

 pone regionem paroticam ducto et ubique torque collari lato albo colluin circumeunte marginato : 

 jugulo et collo reliquo undique nigerrimis : torque pectorali lato albo, altero inferiore augustiore nigro : 

 dorso toto arenaceo, ubique minute nigro transvermiculato, interdum maculas nigras formante : tectri- 

 . cibus alarum dorso concoloribus sed minutius vermiculatis, margine carpali et tectricibus medianis 

 exterioribus et majoribus omnibus albis : ala spuria brunnea, albo terminata : remigibus saturate 

 brunneis, primariis interioribus fascia nigra subterminali notatis, minimis omnino albis, secundariis 

 dorso concoloribus sed magis conspicue nigro undulatis : uropygio imo et supracaudahbus albis, his 

 immaculatis : cauda fulvescente, conspicue nigro undulata, rectricibus centrahbus fasciis tribus nigris 

 transnotatis, rectricibus exterioribus magis conspicue cinerascente vermiculatis, fascia subterminali 

 irregulari transnotatis et albo late terminatis : corpore reliquo subtus albo, pectore superiore laterali 

 dorso concolori : rostro corneo, versus apicem nigricante, mandibula ad basin flavicante : pedibus 

 ochrascentibus : iride rufescenti-brunnea. 



? mari dissimilis : pictura, maris capitali et collari absente : omnino fulvescens, pulchre nigro et arenaceo 

 transvermiculata et variegata : pectore et abdomine albis, hypochondriis fasciis sagittiformibus notatis, 

 gula albicante : jugulo et pectore superiore dorso concoloribus. 



Adult Male in spring. Back and scapulars sandy brown, every feather being barred with wavy black lines, 

 some having a black spot in the centre ; upper tad-coverts lighter, the outside feathers being pure 

 white marked with black ; primary quills white at the base, the rest of the feathers being dull black, 

 the inner ones white, broadly banded with black and tipped with white ; secondaries white, the inner- 

 most elongated in shape, and in colour simdar to the back ; primary wing-coverts white, with a black 

 central mark ; the larger coverts white, marked with dark lines at the base ; the smaller coverts similar 



