Order XII.— CURSORES. 



Family OTIBIDjE. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Otis, f Linncens.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak shorter, or not exceeding the 

 length of the head, straight, conic, compressed, the point of 

 the upper mandihle curved. Nostrils oval, open, lateral, and 

 a little removed from the base. Feet long, naked above the 

 knee. Three toes, all in front, short, united at the base, and 

 bordered with a membrane. Wings middle sized, the first 

 quill half the length and the second ratlier shorter than the 

 third, which is the longest in the wing. 



RUFFED BUSTARD. 



Otis huhara. 



Otis hubara, Gmelin. 



" " cxpodolui undalata, BaissoN. 



" undulata, Jacquin. 



Cldamydi.iis houhara, Lksson. 



Huhara undulata, Bonapabte. 



Outarde houhara, Of the FKENCir. 



Kragentrappe, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak long and much depressed at the 

 base; a crest of white feathers on the vertex, and a long and 

 strong mass of brownish black and white feathers hanging as a 

 pendant from the back of the neck on each side. Length twenty- 

 four inches; from carpus to tip fourteen inches; tarsus four 

 inches; middle toe two inches; beak two inches and one tenth. 



