356 BUSTARD. 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands, and Cape of Good Hope ; is 

 called Wild Peacock by the inhabitants, but on what account seems 

 uncertain ; perhaps some of its actions or attitudes correspond with 

 those of the Peacock. 



B. — Length three feet. Bill three inches long, and pale; fore- 

 head, sides round the eyes, whole of the neck, and beneath, pale 

 cinereous white, crossed with numerous minute lines of dusky ; belly 

 and thighs nearly plain ; back and wing coverts beautifully mottled 

 rufous brown, with dusky irregular, abrupt lines, appearing marbled; 

 some of the outer series of the second wing coverts are black, others 

 ash-colour, with a large spot of white at the end of each ; second 

 quills greenish grey for the most part, the greater black ; behind the 

 thighs and vent pale marbled rufous brown, with a few large dusky 

 spots ; tail the same, inclining to cinereous near the end, but un- 

 spotted ; and finally, the ends of the feathers are dusky black for 

 about an inch ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits India. — Taken from a fine drawing, of full size, in the 

 collection of General Hardwicke. 



4 —WHITE-EARED BUSTARD.— Pl. cxxxiv. 



Otis Afra, Ind.Om.u. 659, Gm.'Lin.i. 724. Borowsk. iii. 1-20. 



Otis Atra, Lin. i. 264. Gerin. iii. t. 266. 



L'Outarde d'Afrique, Buf. ii. 54. 



Knor-Cock, Kolb. Cap. ii. 139. pl. 7. f. 2. Sparrm. Voy. i. 153. 



White-eared Bustard, Gen. Syn. iv. 802. Id. Sup. 227. 



SIZE of a large Fowl ; length twenty-two inches. Bill yellow, 

 at the end black ; crown blackish brown, irregularly barred with 

 white lines, and bounded on each side with the same : on the ears a 

 large patch of white; the rest of the head, neck, and under parts, 

 are black ; round the lower part of the neck behind a band of white, 



