350 TRUMPETER. 



3— CHILI TRUMPETER. 



Otis Chilensis, bid. Orn. ii. 658. Gm. Lin. i. 725. Molin. Chil. Fr. ed. 241. 

 Chili Bustard, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 284. 



THIS is larger than the Great Bustard, with bill and legs 

 similar. Colour of the plumage for the most part white; but the 

 crown of the head and fore part of the wings are grey, and the 

 quills black ; the tail has 18 feathers, and is rather short ; the legs 

 furnished with three toes, placed forwards, and a fourth a little way 

 up behind. 



Inhabits the Plains of Chili, and there called Piuquen ; mostly 

 met with in flocks, and feeds on herbage. It does not begin to pair 

 before two years old. The female lays six white eggs, the size of 

 those of a Goose ; it readily becomes tame, and may be domesticated 

 in the manner of other poultry. As no specimen of the bird, or 

 even a figure of it has come under our view, we have to rest on the 

 authority of Molina, for its ranking with the Bustard ; but from the 

 circumstance of its having a fourth toe behind, we have ventured to 

 join it with the Trumpeter Genus. 



