INDIAN BUSTARD. 
of a whjtish colour. The eyes are large : 
the irides hazel-coloured ; and the eye-lids ash- 
coloured. The sides of the head, all round the 
eyes, are of a bright brown colour : the top of 
the head, and the whole neck, are covered with 
black feathers, hanging a little loose, with 
narrow points. The back,, rump, and tail, 
are of a bright brown. The feathers on the 
back have their middles black, with a small, 
powdering of the same colour on their brown 
parts. The tail has transverse bars of blacky 
with the like powdering on the intermediate 
brown bars. From the upper part of the 
back, the brown spotted with black passes 
. quite round the lower part of the neck before.. 
All the covert-feathers of the wings are white ; 
except tliat the smaller feathers about the 
joint, or band, are edged with black: the 
greater or outer quills, have their outer webs 
white, their tips gradually becoming of a dark 
ash- colour. The whole under side, from the 
transverse brown bar on the breast, to the co- 
Y,ert. feathers under the tail, is covered with 
black feathers. 'I'he legs arc long, and the 
toes short in proportion: they are void of fea- 
thers a pretty way above die knees. 'I'he toes 
arc 
