te BIRDS. GRALhM. 32, 35, 34. 



throat dirty-white, with a black mark extending to the ears : cheeks 

 spotted brown and white: breast pale yellow-red, with a few 

 black lines: belly and vent paler: quills dusky , with yellowish- 

 white marks ; tail dusky, more or less tipt with white : legs yel- 

 lowish, without I'pur in the male. 



32. OTIS. Bustard 



148. O. Tarda. /With undulate dusky and rufous streaks, 

 beneath -whitish : male with a crest-like tuft each 

 side the lower mandible. 



Great Bustard. Br. Zool. t. 44. Lewin t. 140. Walcol. t. 173. 



Length near 4 feet : extent 9 : weight 24-28 pounds. 

 Bill dusky : iris light hazel : head and neck cinereous ; lower-part of 

 the neck and throat ferruginous : greater wing-coverts grey : quills 

 black, slightly tipt with white : middle tail-feathers ferruginous 

 with black bars, outer-ones whitish with black bars : legs dusky. 



Female half the size of the male : crown orange with black, lines: 

 lower-part of the neck before grey : lower mandible without the 

 tufts of feathers. 



149. O. Tetrax. Ferruginous mottled with brown and 

 crossed with dusky lines, beneath white : lower man- 

 dible of the male without the crest-like tuft. 



Little Bustard. Lewin t. 141. Edw. t. 251. Walcott. 174. 



Length 17 inches : about, the size of the pheafant. 

 Bill pale brown : crown and chin fpotted ferruginous and black • 

 sides of the head rufous-white : neck, in the male, black bounded 

 above and below with white : greater quills black with a white 

 bafe ; fecondaries white : 4 middle tail-feathers tawny with black 

 bars ; the rest white more or less barred with black : legs grey. 



F-e:aah with the neck like the back. 



150. O. (Edicnemus. Pale reddish-brown, with dusky 

 spots : chin, belly, and vent, white with a few dusky 

 streaks : 2 primary quill-feathers black, with a white 

 bar in the middle. 



Thick-kneed Bustard. Lewin t. 142. Albin t. 6g. IValcot t. 163. 



Length 18 inches : extent 36 : weight 18 ounces. 

 Bill yellowish at the bafe, dusky at the tip : iris yellow: head much 

 rounded: beneath the eyes a bare yellowish-green fpace, with a 

 pale streak above and, beneath them : wing-coverts with a whitish 

 band : tail-feathers tipt with black, except the 2 middle-ones ; the 

 3 outer barred with black and white, the rest with brown: legs 

 yellow j the knees thick, as ii* fwoollen : claws dusky. 



ORDER VI. GRALL^E. 



33. PLATALEA. Spoonbill. 



151. PI. Leucorodia. White, with a bright orange spot 

 at the angles of the bill : hind-head crested. 



White Spoonbill. Br. Zool. app. t. 9. Lewin t. 143. 



Length 40 inches : extent 52 : weight 3 pounds and-a half. 

 Billy inches long, 2 inches wide in the broadest part, brown or 

 black, with an orange fpot near the tip of the upper mandible, 

 rough towards the bafe : tongue short, heart-shaped : iris grey, or 

 red : orbits nearly bare, black : chin fometimes black : plumage 

 white, with sometimes the tips of the quills black : legs 6 inches 

 long, black, naked half way up the thighs. 



34. ARDEA. Heron. 

 |52, A.. Grns,, Body cinereous :, hind-head bare of fea- 



