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FIELD BUSTARNELLE. 

 (Tetrax campestris.) 



Te. nigro rufo alboque variegata, subtus albayCollo nigro, torque 

 duplici albo. (Femina torque corpore supra concolor,) 



Bustarnelle variegated with black, rufous, and white; beneath 

 white J the neck black, with a double white ring. {Female 

 with the collar the same colour as the rest of the body.) 



Tetrax campestris. Leach. Cat. Mus. Brit. p. 28. 



Otis Tetrax. Linn. Si/st, Nat. 1. 264. 3. — Li7zn. Faun. Suec. 

 No, }Q6. — GmeL Syst. Nat, 1. 723. 3. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 2, 



Gsg. 3. 



Otis minor. Briss. Orn. 5. 24. 2. pL l.f. 1, 2. — 'Raii. Syn. 5Q. 2. 

 Petite Outarde. Buff. Ois. 2. AO.— Buff. PI. Enl. 25, male. 10. 

 female. 



Outard canepetiere. Temm, Man, d'Orni. 318. 

 Field Duck. Alb. 3. pi. 41, 



Little Bustard. Penn, Brit, Zool. 1. 99, — Penn. Ard. Zool. 2. 



321. A. — Eduy.pl. 251.— P^zY. Trans, xlviii. p. 502. pi. I6, — 



Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 759. 2. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 226. — Leuo. Brit. 



Birds. 4. pi. 140. — Wale. Syn, 2, pi. \'j4.—Bexio, Brit. Birds. 



1.318. — Mont. Orn, Diet, \, — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup.-^Shatu. ^ 



Nat. Mise, 14. pi. 573. female. 

 Field Bustarnelle. Leach, Cat, Mus, Brit, p, 28. 



This is seventeen inches in length : the top of 

 the head and the occiput are bright luteous, spotted 

 with brown : the sides of the head and the fore- 

 part of the neck are deep grey, encircled with a 

 collar of pure white : the whole of the lower part 

 of the neck is deep black : the breast is surrounded 

 by a broad white collar, succeeding a narrow band 

 of black: the rest of the under parts, the edge of 



