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GREAT BUSTARD. Class II. 



GENUS XV. BUSTARD. 



Bill strong, a little incurvated. 



Toes none behind. 



Thighs partly bare of feathers. 



1. Great. Otis. Tarda. O. nigro rufoque 

 undulato - maculata subtus 

 albida, capite (maris) jugu- 

 loque utrinque cristate 

 Lath. hid. orn. 658. id. Syn. 

 iv. 796. 



Tetrax. Athenosi, lib. ix. 3Q8. 



L'Ostarde. Belon av. 235. 



Otis, vel Bistarda. Gesner av. 

 484, 486. 



Otis sive Tarda. Aldr. av. ii. 

 39. 



Wil. orn. 178. 



Raii Syn. av. 58. 



Gustard. ~Boeth.ii, 7. and Sib. 



Scot. 16. 

 Edw. Tab. 73, 74. 

 L'Outarde. Brisson av. v. 18. 



Hist, d'ois. ii. 1. if. 1. PI. 



Enl. 245. 

 Otis Tarda. Gm. Lin. 726. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 196. 

 Trap. Kram. 355. 

 Acker-Trappe. Frisch. i. 106. 



Scopoli, No. 160. 

 Br. Zool. 87- plate N. Arct. 



Zool. i. 375. 



Descrip- J^ jje bustard is the largest of the British land 



TION. * 



fowl ; the male at a medium weighing twenty-five 

 pounds ; there are instances of some very old ones 

 weighing twenty-seven pounds. The breadth 

 is nine feet ; the length near four. Besides the 

 size and difference of color, the male is distin- 

 guished from the female by a tuft of feathers 

 about five inches long on each side the lower 



