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OTIS MACQUEENI. 



(MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD.) 



Wtis marmorata, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 60 (1832). 



Otis houbara, Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. vii. p. 66, et auctt. plur. (1834, nee Desf.). 



Otis macqueeni, J. E. Grey, 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 47 (1835). 



Houbara macqueeni, G. E. Gray, List of B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 57 (1844). 



JEupodotis macqueeni, G. E. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 533 (1845). 



Eupodotis undulata, G. E. Gray, Cat. Brit. B. p. 134 (1863, nee Jacq.). 



Figures notabiles. 

 Hardw. 111. Ind. Zool. pi. 47 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. pi. 170 ; Dubois, Journ. f. Orn. 

 1866, pi. iii.; Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. pi. 19; Gould, B. of Asia, iii. pi. 8. 



d ad. 0. undulates similis, sed pilei crista alba nigro terminate, dorso rufescenti-ochraceo nigro vermiculato : 

 cauda fasciis tribus ceeruleis transfasciata. et ad basin pallide rufescenti-ochraceil immaculata : corpore 

 subtus sicut in 0. undulata, colorato, sed plumis elongatis in gutture imo csruleo-cinereis nee albis. 



2 ad. mari similis sed sordidior et minor, crista et torque collari minoribus. 



Adult Male (Sindb) . In general character of plumage resembling Otis undulata, but differing as follows : 

 the crest is scarcely as full, and most of the feathers are black on the terminal portion ; the back is 

 quite differently marked from what it is in Otis undulata, being finely vermiculated with black on a 

 rufescent ochreous ground, the markings here and there collecting so as to form irregular blotches ; tail 

 marked with only three blue bars, the basal portion being pale ochreous rufescent ; underparts as in 

 Otis undulata ; but the elongated feathers on the lower throat are blue-grey, and not white ; soft parts as 

 in 0. undulata. Total length about 26 inches, culmen T7, wing 15"4, tail 8"6, tarsus 39. 



Adult Female (N.W. India). Differs in being rather smaller in size, and in having the crest and ruff less 

 developed. 



The present species, the eastern representative of the African Houbara Bustard, inhabits the 

 north-western portion of India, occurring westward into Persia. It occasionally straggles into 

 Europe, and has occurred as far west as Great Britain, where, however, it has only been met 

 with on one occasion. Yarrell states that the specimen in question was shot by Mr. G. Hansley, 

 in a stubble-field on Kinton Cliff, Kinton Lindsey, Lincolnshire, on the 7th October, 1847, and 

 was deposited in the Museum of the Philosophical Society at York. It has also been recorded 

 from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, and Holland. According to Mr. W. Meves one was 

 killed on the island of Oland (not on Gottland, as is stated by Nilsson) in February 1847 ; and 

 Dr. Sundstrom informs me that he has convinced himself that it is the present species, and not 

 Otis undulata. Professor Malmgren informs me that it has once been shot in Finland, on the 



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