BUSTARD. 361 



This inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and is by much the finest 

 in Southern Africa, is not uncommon. Seen in great numbers in the 

 neighbourhood of Zwart-kop's Bay, chiefly near the farm houses, 

 and to all appearance might be domesticated. The flesh is exceed- 

 ingly good, with a high game flavour. 



8.— ABYSSINIAN BUSTARD. 



LENGTH two feet eight inches. Bill pale, depressed, from gape 

 to point three inches ; from the end of the bill to that of the claws, 

 two feet nine inches ; crown of the head crested, the feathers elon- 

 gated, black ; upper parts of the body finely marbled as in the first 

 species, but with very fine lines beneath ; neck greyish white, marked 

 with transverse lines of black ; tail white, crossed with three or four 

 brown bars, the end mottled ; but near the body white, and a streak 

 down the wings ; legs pale, stout, and bare three inches above the 

 knee. 



Inhabits Abyssinia, brought from thence by Mr. Salt. 



9— AFRICAN BUSTARD. 



LENGTH nearly four feet. Bill stout, horn-coloured; head 

 and neck nearly bare, being covered only with longish, weak, 

 slender feathers ; most bare on the fore part, longer on the sides, and 

 falling on the breast somewhat like a loose rufF; all these are very 

 pale bufl-colour ; the body on the upper parts brown, minutely 

 marked with yellowish, as in some others of the Genus; the wings 

 chiefly black, irregularly charged with large spots of white ; quills 

 brown ; the top of the head is brown ; all the under parts from the 

 breast white ; tail long, brown and white in alternate bars, six bars 



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