﻿8oa BUSTARD. 



4- Otis Atra, Lin. Syjl. i. p, 964.. 4. 



WHITE^EARED Knor-Cock, Knor-Hen, Kolb. Cape, vol. ii. p. 139. pi. 7. f. 2. 



pl. Lxrx. 



Description, c I Z E of a large /ke;/: length twenty -two inches. The bill 

 yellow, and a trifle bent at the end, where it is black: the 

 crown of the head is blackiih brown, irregularly barred with 

 white lines; on each fide of it a white line j on the ears a large 

 fpot of white : the reft of the head, with the forehead, neck, and 

 under parts of the body, black : round the lower part of the neck 

 behind a band of white, which paries forwards to the bread like a 

 collar, but does not quite meet before : the upper parts of the 

 body, great part of the wings, and tail, are deep blackiih brown, 

 crofted with irregular ftreaks of different Ihapes^ and of a rufous 

 colour : the outer edge of the wing and quills are black : above 

 thefe a large bed of white, occupying almoft the whole length of 

 the wing : the fecondaries are longer than the quills, and hang 

 over and hide them, in a ftate of reft : the tail confifts of fourteen 

 feathers, is five inches in length, and a little rounded ; all the 

 feathers marked not unlike thofe of the back, but more inclined to 

 afh-colour, paleft at the end ; befides which, all but the two mid- 

 dle ones are crofted with two bars of black. The lower part of 

 the feathers* round the middle of the thighs, are white : the legs 

 are yellow : claws black. 

 Female. The female has the head and neck like the back, but the lines 



more delicate, and the breaft and belly black, like the male $ 

 but the white fpot on the ears, and ring at the lower part of the 

 neck, are wanting. 



The white patch on the ears is fo confpicuous, as to defer- 



vedly 



