INDIAN BUSTARD. 
are only three, all standing forward, as in all 
birds of the Bustard kind: they are covered 
with scales of a whitish colour. The claws 
are dusky.'* 
In Bengal, where this bird is a native, it is 
called Churge. The drawing was made in the 
East Indies : and, though not executed by Ed- 
wards, he believes it to be as genuine a piece 
as if he had drawn it himself from life. 
We may remark,'* says BufFon, that 
the climate of Bengal is nearly the same with 
that of Arabia, Abyssinia, and Senegal, where 
the Lohong, or Crested Arabian Buftard, and 
the African Bustard, are found ; and," he adds, 
we may term it the Middle Buftard, because 
it bolds the intermediate rank between the large 
and the small species," 
