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only leave the usual haunts in very severe winters, when the downs 

 are covered with snow for some time, and when hunger forces thein 

 to the more enclosed situations in small flocks, at which time they 

 stray to a great distance. In the winter of 1798, one was killed near 

 Plymouth, in Devonshire, and two others the following year, in the 

 same county.* Some years before, seven or eight were seen in the 

 lower parts of Gloucestershire, and two at least were killed ; and in 

 the year 1783, in very severe weather, two Bustards were seen at 

 St. Margaret's, on the Kentish Coast, and one of them shot.t 



2.— NEW-HOLLAND BUSTARD. 



LENGTH three feet one inch. Bill black ; crown of the head 

 the same ; neck dun-colour, speckled with minute blackish spots ; 

 wing coverts white, marked with spots of black and lead-colour near 

 the end ; the five outer quills brown, the rest grey, with three large 

 white spots, the ends white ; back and tail brown grey, minutely 

 spotted with white ; belly and vent white ; thighs white, waved with 

 black : the tail consists of fourteen feathers, which are white at the 

 euds; legs black : from the joint to the heel seven inches; length of 

 the middle toe three inches and a half. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — In the collection of Gen. Davies. 

 The late Mr. Pennant informed me of a Bustard, in New-Holland, 

 weighing sixteen pounds, with a black band across the breast, but 

 could not furnish any further account. 



3— ARABIAN BUSTARD. 



Otis Arabs, Ind.Orn. ii. 801. Lin. i. 264. Gm. Lin. i. 725. Buf. v. 30. Id.8vo.ii. 



219. Klein, 18. 3. Borowsk. iii. 120. Gerin. iii. pi. 266. 

 Le Lohong, Outarde hupee d'Arabie, Buf. ii. 52. 



* Orn. Diet. f Mr. Boys. 



