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©ti« Arabs, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 264. z-. ? . 



L'Outarde d'Arabie, Brif. orn. v. p. 30. N° 3. ARABIAN B. 



Le Lohong, ou l'Outarde huppe d'Arabie, Buf. oif. ii. p. 52. 

 Arabian Buftard, Edw. pi. 12. 



CIZE of the Great Buftard, but the bill, neck, and legs, are Description. 



longer. The bill pale horn-colour : irides dull brown : the 

 back part of the head crefted and black ; the forehead whitiih i 

 on each fide of the head a black mark, paffing into the creft be- 

 hind ; the reft of the head, the neck, and upper parts of the 

 body, are rufous, mixed with black, giving the appearance of 

 the markings of a Woodcock : the throat and fore part of the 

 neck afh-colour, crofied with brown lines : breaft and under parts 

 white : quills black ; the fecondaries black and white, in fpots ; 

 thofe neareft the body rufous, crofied with blackifh : the two 

 middle tail feathers of this laft colour ; the others white, a little 

 mottled, and crofied with a band of black : legs pale brown. 



Found in Arabia Felix. Edwards faw one of thefe alive in Place; 



London, which came from Mocha, where it is known by the name 

 of Lohong. 



This is, without doubt, the Flying OJlrich of Le Maire and 

 Adanfon *, and not the next, as Buffon f fuppofes. The long 

 neck, the creft, and fize, all proclaim that it can by no means be 

 the following, which Linrueus has defcribed with his ufual per- 

 fpiasity and concifenefs, and which is fcarce one third of the fize. 



• Voy. de la Maire, p. 106. — Adanf. Seneg. Eng. ed. p. 294. 

 t ffiji. -det oif. ii. p. 54. 



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