BUSTARD. 



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GENUS LXVL— BUSTARD. 



1 Great Bustard 



2 New-Holland 



3 Arabian 

 A Var. 

 B Var. 



4 White-eared 



5 Indian 



6 Black-headed 



7 Blue-necked 



8 Abyssinian 



9 African 



10 Great-billed 



11 Marbled 



12 Little 



13 Passarage 



14 Ruffed 



15 Rhaad 



16 White-chinned 



17 Thick-necked 



Jt>ILL a little convex, nostrils open, oblong. 



Tongue sloping on each side near the end, and pointed. 



Legs long, naked more or less above the knee. 



Toes only three, all placed forwards. 



Birds of this Genus are met with in various places of the Old 

 Continent, and Islands adjacent, but not a single species has hitherto 

 been discovered in America. * 



1— GREAT BUSTARD. 



Otis Tarda, Ind. Orn. ii. 658. Lin. i. 264. Gm. Lin. i. 722. Scop. i. No. 259. 



Frisch, t. 106. Kramer, 354. 1. Georgi, 172. Faun. arag. 79. Rati, 58. A. 



]. Will. 229. t. 32. Bris. v. 18. Id. 8vo. ii. 216. Klein, 18. 1. Id. Stem. 3. 



t. 2. f. 1. 3. Id. Ov. 16. t. 3. f. 1. Borowsk. iii. 115. t. 59. Schwf. El. Orn. t. 



51. Gerin. iii. t. 265. Tern. Man. d'Om. 307. Id. Ed. 2d. 506. 

 Trappe, Wirs. Fog. t. 33. Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. 43. Schr. d. Berl. Nat. iii. 376. t. 8. 



f. 2. Naturf. xi. S. 11. Id. xxii. 130. Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 278. Id. Ed. 2d. iii. 



p. 1432. Schmid, Vog. p. 104. t. 93. 

 Outarde, Buf. ii. p. 1. pi. 1. PL enl. 245. Hist. Prov. i. 353. 

 Abutarda, Gabin. de Madrid, ii. p. 73. lam. 70. 



* If we except the one so called by Molina; but which, from its possessing a fourth, 

 or hind toe, seems more properly to belong to the Trumpeters, where, till we can obtain 

 further information, we have placed it. 



