﻿BUSTARD. 



79-9' 



Otis tetrax, Lin. Syft. i. p. 264. — Faun. Suec. N° 196. — Mutter, p. 27. 2 . 



^■o 230. LITTLE B* 



La petite Outarde, ou Canne-petiere, Brif. orn. v. p. 24. pi. 2- f. 1.2.— 



Buf. oif. ii. p. 40. — PL enl. 25. (the male.) 10. {(he female.) — Rait 



Syn. p. 59. 2.— Will. orn. p. 179. pi. 32. 

 French Field Duck, Albin. iii. pi. 41. 

 Little Buftard, Ediu. pi. 251. — 5r. Zoo/, i. N° 99. — W/7. Trap/, vol. xlviii. 



p. 502. pi. 16. — Arcl. Zool. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a Pheafant : length feventeen inches. Bill grey Description-,. 



brown : crown of the head black, dafhed with rufous: fides 

 of the head, chin, and throat, rufous white, marked with fmall 

 blackifh dafhes : the whole neck black, encircled with two irregu- 

 lar bands of white,, the one near the top, the other near the bot- 

 tom : the back and wings are rufous mottled brown, crofTed with 

 fine irregular black lines, mixed with fome perpendicular dallies 

 of the laft : the under parts of the body and outer edges of the 

 wings white : the tail confifts of eighteen feathers ; the four 

 middle ones are tawny, barred with blackifh} the others white, 

 marked with tranfverfe irregular narrow blackifh bands : legs 

 grey. 



The female differs in wanting the black neck; inftead of Female,,. 

 which, it is much of the fame colour with the reft of the upper 

 parts, being fomewhat like thofe of the male, but the lines not fo 

 delicate, and fuller of longitudinal irregular fpots : the breaft ru- 

 fous white, ftriated with blackifli : the reft of the under parts 

 white ; but the tail coverts croffed with blackifh lines in both 

 fexes *. 



* " He (fays Willughby, from Belon) that defires an exact defcription of this 

 " bird, let him imagine a S^uail of the bignefs of a Pheafant, but very much 

 " fpotted ; for juft fuch is this Field Duck." 



The 



