WHITE-EARED BUSTARD. 



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. and the wings, are yellow-ochre, sprinkled with 

 delicate black stripes, but the middle of each 

 feather is plain : the quills are white, black towards 

 their tip, which is pure white : the tail-feathers 

 are of a red-ochre colour, with three broad stripes 

 of dusky grey ; and the whole of them, except the 

 two middle ones, are tipped with white : the beak 

 is dusky brown : the feet greenish. Its length is 

 about two feet. The young males have the sides 

 of the head more striped with zigzag lines of red 

 and dusky: the white feathers of the crest are 

 shorter, and marked towards their tips with fine 

 dusky stripes : the long feathers on the sides of 

 the neck are shorter, and varied with deep brown. 

 The female is unknown. 



This bird inhabits Arabia and the northern 

 parts of Africa, and it sometimes migrates into 

 Spain and Turkey: its manners are unknown, 

 save that it resides in the deserts. 



WHITE-EARED BUSTARD. 



(Otis Afra.) 



Ot. nigra^ dorso cinereo-undulatOf auribus albis. 

 Black Bustard, with the back undulated with cinereous ; the 

 ears white. 



Otis afra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 724. 4. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 659. 5. 



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