104 RUFFED BUSTARD. 



habitat, the chances are but small that it will again be obtained, in this country. For 

 a correct figure, taken from the bird itself, we refer to the "British Birds," by the Rev. 



F. 0. Morris; and also to "The Naturalist," volume ii., page 89, where an excellent 

 coloured figure of it is given. 



The bill is dark lead-colour, compressed at the tip, depressed at the base; irides, 

 yellow; the head and throat, rufous, mottled with black, with long loose feathers of a 

 slate-colour hanging over the breast. Chin, white; back of the neck, white, minutely 

 mottled with brown; the sides of the neck are ornamented with a range of feathers two 

 inches long, about two-thirds of the upper portion black, the lower part white. The back 

 and wing coverts, rufous, mottled with black, with zigzag bars of black across; the quill 

 feathers black, extending to the end of the tail when closed; under parts, white. Legs, 

 greenish yellow. 



Weight, thirty-six ounces. 



Length, twenty-three inches; expanse of wings, three feet eight inches. 



