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bird. Edwards copied it from a drawing, and I do not hear 

 of the bird itfelf being in the pofifeffion of any one. 



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Le Houbara, ou petite Outarde huppee d'Afrique, Buf. oif, ii. p. 59.—= 

 Shaw's Trail, p. 252. pi. oppof* f. 1. 



ClZE of a Capon-, but longer. Bill near an inch and a half 

 long, and flat, like a Starling's : the body is of a light dun or 

 yellowifh colour, marked all over with little brown fpots : neck 

 feathers whitilh, ftreaked with black, and very long, capable of 

 being erecled, as in the Cock and Ruff* : large wing feathers 

 black, each of them marked with a white fpot near the middle : 

 the bird has only three toes. So far Shaw's defcription ; who 

 fays, that it frequents the defarts of Arabia,, and feeds on ihrubs 

 and infects. It is often purfued by the Hawk, when it makes a 

 variety of flights and ftratagems in order to efcape. 



RUFFED B. 



Descriftjqk. 



Le Rhaad, Buf. oif. ii. p. 61. — SWj Trav. p. 255. pi. oppolite, f. 2. 



^F this, he fays, there are two forts; the firft is the fize of the 

 Houbaara, or laft fpeeies. The bill and legs ftrong: the 

 head black; at the hind part a tuft of a dark blue colour : the 

 upper part of the body, and wings, yellow, fpotted with brown . 

 the belly white : the tail pale brown, crofled with tranfverfe 

 ftripes of black. 



The fmaller one is only of the fize of a Common Fowl, and has 

 not the creft behind the head : the back and legs are ftronger 

 than thofe of the Partridge : the markings much the fame as in 

 the other. Both have three toes only. 



* la the plate the head feems furnifhed with a creft. 



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