391 



OTIS UNDULATA. 



(HOUBARA BUSTARD.) 



Le Houbara ou petite Outarde huppee d'Afrique, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 59 (1771). 



Psophia undulata, Jacq. Beitr. Gesch. Vog. p. 24, pi. 9 (1784). 



Otis hobara, Desf. Mem. de l'Acad. Roy. des Sc. p. 496, pi. x. (1787). 



Otis houbara, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 725 (1788). 



Atix houbara (Desf.), Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 4. 



Houbara, Bp. Sagg. distrib. metod. Animal. Verteb. ed. 2, Agg. e correz. p. 142 (1832). 



Chlamydotis, Less. (Otis houbara, Gm.), Eev. Zool. 1839, p. 47. 



Chlamydotis houbara (Desf.), G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 64 (1840). 



Houbara undulata (Jacq.), G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 83 (1841). 



JEupodotis undulata (Jacq.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 533 (1845). 



Otis ornata, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 278 (1855). 



Figures notabiles. 



Jacq. I. c. ; Desf. I. c. ; Werner, I. c. ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 268 ; Vieill. Gal. des Ois. pi. 227; 

 ?Sund. Sv. Fogl. taf. 75. fig. 3. 



8 ad. pileo rufescenti-ochraceo, nigro delicate notato et fasciato : crista verticali alba, plumis posticis rufescenti- 

 ochraceis nigro notatis : mento albo : faciei lateribus cum collo toto griseo-albis nigricante vermiculatis 

 et oehraceo-fusco tinctis : torque collari supra nigro, infra albo : corpore suprsl rufescenti-ochraceo, nigro 

 fasciato et notato : tectricibus alarum pallidioribus : remigibus primariis ad basin albis et nigro termi- 

 natis, extimo in pogonio externo fere omnino nigro : cauda rufescenti-ochracea, cseruleo-cinereo fasciata 

 et albo terminata, his fasciis in parte apicali nigro notatis : pectore et corpore reliquo subtus albis : 

 rostro griseo-brunneo, ad basin flavicante et versus apicem saturatiore : iride flavida, : pedibus olivaceo- 

 flavidis. 



$ ad. mari similis sed minor, crista minore, et torque collari minus extenso. 



Adult Male (Alexandria, 2nd December). Crown rufescent ochreous, marked and barred with black, centre 

 of the crown covered with a thick crest of long white feathers, some of which are tipped like the rest of 

 the crown ; chin white ; sides of the neck and head below the auriculars, fore part of the neck, and hind 

 neck white, vermiculated with greyish black, and slightly tinged with pale ochreous brown ; on each 

 side of the lower neck are elongated black feathers, to which on the lower part are joined similarly 

 elongated white feathers forming a conspicuous ruff, the feathers on the lower neck being also somewhat 

 elongated; entire upper parts rufescent ochreous, rather boldly barred with black, the bars being- 

 collected together and forming irregular bands across the back ; wing-coverts paler than the back ; 

 primaries white at the base, and black on the terminal portion, the first quill with the outer web black 

 nearly to the base; tail rufescent ochreous, crossed by five conspicuous dove-blue bars, marked with 

 black on the terminal bars, and finally tipped with white ; breast and rest of the underparts white ; bill 

 greyish brown, darker at the point, and yellowish towards the base ; iris pale greenish yellow ; legs 



