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GREAT BUSTARD, 

 (Otis Tarda.) 



Ot. corpore supra nigro rufoque undulaio et maculato, suhtus' 

 albido ; remigibus primoribus nigris. (Mas. capite jiiguloque 

 utrinque cristato, ) 



Bustard with the body above undulated and spotted with black 

 and rufous ; beneath whitish ; the primary quills black, 

 {Male with the head and jugulum crested on both sides.) 



Otis Tarda. Linn. Si/st. Nat, 1. 264. l.—Gmel Syst. Nat, 1. 

 722. 1. — Raii. Syn. 58. a. l, — Bri&s, Orn. 5. 38. 1. — Lath, 

 Ind. Orn. 2. 658. 1. — Leach Cat. Mus, Brit, p, 27. 



Outarde. Buf. Ois. 2. 1. pi, l.-^Buf. PL Enl, 245, 



Outarde barbue. Temm, Man, d'Orni. 31^. 



Great Bustard. Penn, Brit. Zool. 1. 98. 7?^. 44. — Penn. Arct. 

 Zool, 2. 186. — Edw. pi, 79, 80. — Alb, Birds. 3. pi. 38, 39.—- 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 796. 1. — Le'w, Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 139. — - 

 Wale. Syn, 2. pi. 173.—Pidt. Cat. Dors. p. 6.— Mont. Orn. 

 Diet. 1. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Betv, Brit, Birds, 1. 314.— 

 Bing. Anim, Biog. 2. 268* 



This species is the largest of the British birds,, 

 the male frequently weighing so much as twenty- 

 five or thirty pounds, attaining the height of four 

 feet, and his wings expanding about nine : on 

 each side of the lower mandible of the beak is a 

 tuft of long feathers, constructed of delicate and 

 unconnected webs: the head, neck, breast, and 

 edge of the wing, are grey, inclining to brown on 

 the tip of the head : the back and lesser wing- 

 coverts are elegantly barred with black and pale 

 ferruginous : the greater coverts are pale cine- 



