284 
XIiL. 
BUSTARD. 
98. Great. 
DescripP. 
FEMALE, 
GREAT BUSTARD. Crass Il. 
Strong BILL, a little incurvated. 
No back TOE. 
Tetrax. %Athenai, lib. IX. 398. L’Outarde. Briffon av. Vv. 
L’Oftarde. Belon av. 235. 18. Hf. d’Oys. 
Otis, vel Biftarda. Gener av. Otis tarda. Lin. fpf. 264. 
484, 486. Faun. Suec. fp. 196. 
Otis five Tarda. Aldr. av. 1.39. Trap. Kram. 355. 
Wil. orn. 178. Acker-Trappe. Fri/ch, I. 
Raii fyn. av. 58. 106. Scopoli, No. 160. 
Guftard. Boethiz, 7. and Sib. Br. Zool.*87. plate N. Pl 
Scot. 16. Enl. 245. 
Edw. Tab. 73, 74. 
HE buftard is the largeft of the Britifh land 
fowl; the male at a medium weighing 
twenty-five pounds; there are inftances of fome 
very old ones weighing twenty-feven. The breadth 
nine feet;- the length near four. Befides the fize 
and difference of color, the male is diftinguifhed 
from the female by a tuft of feathers about five 
inches long on each fide the lower mandible. Its 
head and neck are afh colored: the back is barred 
tranfverfely with black and bright ruft color: the 
greater quil feathers are black: the belly white: the — 
tail is marked with broad red and black bars, and 
confifts of twenty feathers: the legs dufky. 
The female is about half the fize of the male: — 
the — 
