﻿3o+ BUSTARD. 



nothing in Kc! ben's defcription * to confirm his fuppofition, ex- 

 cept it be his figure of it, which feems fpotted with white. 



5' Le Grand Pluvier de Bengale, Brif. orn. v. p. 82. is. 



1 is. Le churgej ou j'outarde Moyenne des Indes, Buf. oif. ii. p. 56. 



Indian Buftard, Ed-vu. pi. 250. 



Description. T ENGTH twenty-three inches: height, when {landings 

 twenty. The bill two inches three quarters long, fomewhar 

 bent towards the end ; of a whitifh colour : the eyes very large : 

 irides hazel : eyelids cinereous : fides of the head round the eyes 

 brown : the reft of the head, the neck, and under parts, black,, 

 the feathers hanging loofe : back, rump, and tail, bright brown, 

 the middle of each feather black : a bar of brown, fpotted with, 

 black, pafles all round the breaft : tail brown, barred and fpotted 

 with black : the wing coverts white, a few of the outer ones 

 only margined with black; the quills white on the outfide, and 

 cinereous at the tip ; the fecondaries white, fpotted with black, 

 and crofled with black bands ; fome of them neareft the body 

 grey, marked with fmall black fpots : legs whitifh: claws brown. 

 Placs. Inhabits Bengal \ t where it is called Churge. This feems 



fomewhat allied to the laft, and is perhaps a variety of the fame 



* It runs thus : " This bird is of the fize of a Common Hen. The bill is ihort 

 " and black : the feathers on the crown of the head are black; the reft are a 

 *' motley of red, white, and afh-colour : the legs are yellow : the wings are very 

 " fmall for a bird of fuch a fize. This bird therefore cannot fly far at once." 



f It may perhaps prove to be the bird called by Adanfon, Large Eyes. He 

 fays it is as large as a Hen : the head bears no proportion to the eyes : three 

 toes, like a Bujlard ; and, like that bird, the feathers grey mixed with white t 

 ihe fkfh tender, and may be eaten,.— Adanf. Senegal, p. 77. 



bird. 



