214 BUSTARD. Glafs 11. 



we conclude with Gefner, that it was either the Pea- 

 cock, or fome bird of that genus. On confulting 

 fome gentlemen who have long refided in the Indies^ . 

 we find, that though the Turky is bred there, it is 

 only confidered as a domeftic birdj and not a native 

 of the country. 



Genus XIV. The B U S T A R D^ 



I. The BUSTARD. 



L'Oftarde. Bdona'u. 235. Edw. tab, 73, 74. 



Ocis, vel Biitarda. Lejner a^. L'Outarde. BriJJon an) . "v , 18. 



484, 486. Otis tarda. Lin.fyji. 264. 

 Otis five Tarda. Aldr. av. ii. Faun. Suec.fp. i()6. 



3g. Trap. Kram. 355. 



" Wil. orn. 178. Br. ZoqL 87. plate N. 

 Raiifyn. av. ^^. 



Defer, rip HE buftard is the largeft of the Briii/h land 

 JL 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 

 Icv/er mandible. Its head and neck are afii-color.ed: 

 the back is barred tranfverfely with black and bright 

 ruil 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 



