BUSTARD. 363 



four times with dusky ; tail rather pointed, marked as the greater 

 wing feathers; under parts from the chin generally white, with some 

 obsolete, dusky mottlings across the breast; legs dusky pale yellow, 

 and, as usual, bare above the knees. 



A drawing of this bird is among others in the collection of Mr. 

 Dent, but although the colours are beautifully mixed, the whole 

 seems less distinct than in many of the Bustard Genus. 



12.— LITTLE BUSTARD. 



Otis Tetrax, Ind. Orn. ii. 659. Lin. i. 264. Faun. suec. No. 196. Gm. Lin. i. 725. 



Midler, No. 220. Faun. arag. 79. Borowsk. iii. 118. Gerin. iii. t. 264. Gmel. 



reise, iv. 137. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 319. Id. Ed. ii. p. 508. 

 Otis minor, Bris. v. 24. t. 2. f. 1. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 218. Raii, 59. 2. Will. 129. t.32. 

 Otis Tetrax, Shaiv's Zool. pi, 454. 

 Tarda nana, Klein, 18. 2. 



Petite Outarde, Buf. ii. 40. PI. enl. 25.— male. Id. 10.— female. 

 Cauapetiere, Hist. Prov. i. 353. 

 Gallina pratojuola, Get. Uc. Sard. 122. 



Der Kleine Trappe, Bechst. Deut. iii. 288. Id. Ed. ii. iii. p. 1446. 

 Field Duck, Albin, iii. pi. 41. 



JLesser Bustard, Br. Zool. i. 286. Id. Ed. 1812. 379. 

 Little Bustard, Gen. Syn. iv. 759. Id. Sup. 226. Arct. Zool. ii. 321. A. Edw. pi. 



251. Phil. Trans, xlviii. 502. pi. 16. Id. Ivii. 349. Bewick, i. pi. p. 318. Lewin, 



Birds, iv. pi. 140. Walcot, Birds, ii. pi. 174. Nat. Misc. pi. 573. — female. Orn. 

 ■ Diet, fy Supp. 



SIZE of a Pheasant ; length seventeen inches. Bill grey brown ; 

 crown of the head black, dashed with rufous; sides of it, the chin, 

 and throat, rufous white, marked with small dashes of black ; the 

 whole neck black, encircled with two irregular bands of white, one 

 near the top, the other near the bottom; back and wings rufous, 

 mottled brown, crossed with fine, irregular black lines, mixed with 

 some perpendicular dashes of the last ; under parts of the body and 

 outer edges of the wings white ; the tail consists of eighteen feathers, 

 of which the four middle are tawny, barred with blackish ; the others 

 white, marked with transverse, irregular, narrow, blackish bands; 

 legs grey. 



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