BUSTARD. 
the midst of snow. There are, however, 
some difFerences in the colours of the plu- 
mage, in the bill, &cc. 
The Bustard is the largest land bird of Great 
Britain. It is much bigger than the turkey; 
the male, on an average, weighing above 
twenty-five pounds. It's breadth is about nine 
feet, and it's length nearly four. 
The male has a tuft of feathers, about five 
inches long, on each side of the lower mandi- 
ble ; the head and neck are cinereous ; the back 
is barred transversely with black, bright, and 
rust colour; the greater quili feathers are 
black ; the belly is white ; the tail, which con- 
sists of twenty feathers, is marked with broad 
bars of red and black ; and the legs are of a 
dusky colour. 
The female is about half the size of the 
male. The crown of the head is of a deep 
orange colour, traversed with black lines, and 
the rest of it is brown. The lower part of 
the neck before is ash-cololurcd ; but, in other 
respecis, 
