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ORD. V. GEN. IV. BUSTARD. 



SPE. II. LITTLE BUSTARD. 

 PI. 141. 



Otis Tetrix, Lin. Syfl. I. p. 264. 



La petite Outarde, ou Canne-petiere, Brif. Orn. V. p. 24. 



This fpecies is about the fize of a pheafant : its length is feventeen inches. 

 The bill is brownifh : the crown of the head black and ruft-colour : fides of 

 the head, and chin, grey: the neck black, furrounded with two irregular bands 

 of white : the upper parts of the body and wings mottled with black and pale 

 ruft-colour : the under parts white : the quill feathers black at their ends, 

 white at their bottoms ; the white predominating to the fecondaries, which are 

 quite white : the tail has eighteen feathers, the four middle ones tawny, the 

 others white, all more or lefs barred with black : the legs brown. 



The female is marked fomewhat like the male, but not in fo delicate a man- 

 ner, and the neck, inftead of black, is much of the fame colour as the upper 

 parts of the body. 



This fpecies appears to be moft common in France, and is rarely feen in 

 England; however, it has been met with here now and then, on which account 

 we have ventured to place it among the Britilh birds. Its manners are much 

 the fame as thofe of the great buftard. 



