﻿8c6 



BUSTARD. 



Pi/acb. It is very probable that thefe may be of different fexes only, 



if not mere varieties of each other. Both are found in Arabia, 

 and go by the name of Rhaad *, or Saf-faf. 



Are granivorous 



and gregarious. 



WHITE- 

 CHINNED B. 



Description. 



Place. 



Otis Indka, J. F. Miller, pi. 33. 



Q I Z E of the Thick-knee' 'd Bujiard f. Crown of the head black s 

 the upper parts of the body brown, waved with black : tail 

 dufky : round the eyes mottled with black: on each fide of the 

 head a black ftreak : chin white: the reft of the under parts 

 dufky yellowilh cream-colour : fides nearly white : legs pale 

 dufky brown. 

 Inhabits India* 



9' 

 -t-THICK- 



'KNEE'D 



B. 



5BSCTUFTION-. 



Charadrius cedicnemus, Lin. Syjl. i. j>. Z55. — Uajelq* Voy. p. 258. 32. 



Le grand Pluvier, appelle vulgairement Courly deTerre, Br if. orn. v. p. 76. 



12. pi. 7. f. 1. — Buf. oif, viii. p. 105. pi. 7. — Pl.enl. 919. 

 Stone Curlew, Rati Syn. p. 105. A. 6. 108. A. 4. — Will. orn. 306. 293. pi. 



58. 77, — Albin. i. pi. 69. 

 Thkk-knee'dBuftard, Br. Zool. i. N° 100.— Aril. ZeoL 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



ENGTH from fixteen to eighteen inches. Bill almoft two 

 inches long ; yellowilh at the bale, and blackiih towards the 

 end : eyes large : irides and eyelids pale yellow : the head is 



* -Rbaad fignifies thunder ; and Sbatv ieems to think, that as thefe birds 

 make a great noife at their firft rifing from the ground for flight, the name 

 may have arifen from that circumftance. 



f -Suppofed -fo from the head, which is figured of the full fize in the fame 

 ■plate. 



lame 



