BUSTARD. 355 



Wilde Pauw, Wild Peacock, Barrow's Trav. 139 ? 



Paon sauvage de Lugon, Son. Voy. 85. pi. 49. 



Flying Ostrich, Adans. Voy. Seneg. 8vo. p. 294. 



Arabian Bustard, Gen. Syn.'w. 801. Id. Sup. 226. Edw. pi. 12. 



SIZE of the Great Bustard, but the bill, neck, and legs, are 

 longer; the first pale horn-colour; irides dull brown ; back part of 

 the head crested, and black ; forehead whitish ; on each side of the 

 head a black mark, passing into a crest behind ; the rest of the head, 

 neck, and upper parts of the body, rufous, mixed with black, not 

 unlike the markings of a Woodcock ; throat and neck before ash- 

 colour, crossed with brown lines; breast and under parts white; 

 quills black ; the secondaries black and white in spots; those nearest 

 the body rufous, crossed with blackish ; the two middle tail feathers 

 blackish, the others white, a little mottled, and crossed with a black 

 band ; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits Arabia Felix. — Mr. Edwards saw one alive at Sir Hans 

 Sloane's, in London, which came from Mocha, there known by the 

 name of Lohong. 



This no doubt is the Flying Ostrich, of Le Maire, and Adanson, 

 above mentioned, and not the next, as BufFon supposes. The long- 

 neck, crest, and size, forbid it; and especially as it is scarcely one- 

 third the size. 



A. — Le Paon sauvage de Lugon, Son. Voy. 85. pi. 49. 

 Arabian Bustard, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 226. 



Length three feet. Bill long, pointed, straight, a little enlarge^ 

 at the end, dusky black ; head, neck, and breast, light grey, with 

 semicircular lines of black ; on the head a long tuft of feathers, 

 ending in a point, which the bird carries horizontally ; the crest is 

 black above, and grey beneath, banded with black; back, wings, and 

 tail brown ; bastard wing white, margined with grey ; belly white ; 

 toes three in number, placed forwards, and united as far as the first 

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