iNDlAls BUSTARD. 
in the form of the bill — which, in the latter, 
is an arched cone ; and, in the former, is 
straight, and enlarged near the extremity — for, 
in the Indian Plover, the bill is curved rather 
than straight ; and not at all swelling near the 
point, as in the Plovers : at least, so it is re- 
presented in a figure of Edwards, which Bris- 
son allows to be exa£l. I may add," savs 
BufFon, " that this property is more remark- 
able than in the Arabian Bustard of Edwards ; 
the accuracy of which figure is also admitted 
by Brisson, and yet he has not hesitated to 
class that bird with the Bustards/* 
The Indian Bustard, in fatTb, as BufFon adds, 
is four times the bulk of the largest Plover ; 
to say nothing of the total difference in it's 
appearance and proportions. 
It's height,'^ says Edwards, whose h- 
gure we have adopted, '* is calculated to be 
about twenty inches, in the a(5iion or posture 
in which it is drawn. It is a slimmer bird, 
having longer legs in proportion than any 
other bird of this genus I have yet seen. The 
tail is longer than in cur English Bustard, and 
of 
