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Arabian Bustard. 
T his Bird is about the Bignefs of a Turkey, it is longer^ leg’d and neck’d, and 
flenderer-body’d than the common Buftard : It hath a Bill longer than is com- 
mon to the Poultry-kind, of which this is a Species ; From the Point of the Bill to 
the Angles of the Mouth is three Inches and a Half; the Bill is of a light Horn- 
colour, a little darker at the Point; the Noftrils are long, and placed near the fore- 
head • the Eyes are of a dark Colour ; the Fore-part of the Head is white ; above the 
Eye is a Line of black, ending in a Point toward the Forehead backward ; it increafes in 
Breadth, and forms a fort of black Creft, from which Creft proceeds a Ihort black Line, 
and reaches almoft to the hinder Part of the Eye ; the Neck forward, is Afti-colour d, 
with fmall tranfverfe Lines of a darker Colour ; the hinder Part of the Neck and i3ack 
are of a brown Colour, with fine tranfverfe biackifh Lines ;’the Coverts of the Wings or 
the fame Colour with the Back, the Tips of the Feathers being white, form Spots like 
Half moons : the Ridge of the Wing in the upper Part is White, from whence proceeds 
a broad white Bar, that feparates the Covert from the Quill-feathers • this Bar is Iprmk- 
led with fmall black Spots, few or none in the upper Part, thickly ftrewed in the 
lower; the baftard Wing is black, the Feathers having white Tips; the foremolt ot 
the prime Quills are black, the middlemofi: are fpotted black and white, being part ol 
the above-mentioned Bar, drawn obliquely down the Wing ; the inner Quills, next the 
Back, are of the fame Colour with it; the Breaft, Belly, Thighs, and whole under 
Side, are purely White ; the Tail on the upper Side, is colour’d like the Back, tho the 
outer Webs of the outfide Feathers are partly White, the under Side of the i ail hath 
a Bar of Black acrofs it, near the Tips of the Feathers ; the Legs are pretty long ; it 
has only three Toes, which are very fiiort, all ftanding forward ; the Legs are bare ot 
Feathers for fome Space above the Knees ; both Legs and Feet are cover d with a 
fcaley Skin of a dirty white or light brownilh Colour; the Claws of the fame 
^°Thls Bird was kept alive many Years by my honoured Patron Sir Hans Shane, Bart, 
at his Houfe in London, whofe Goodnefs always gave me free Leave to draw any 
curious Thing he had in his Pofleffion. This Bird was brought from Mocha in Arabia 
Felix, and prefented to Sir Hans Shane, by Charles Dubois, Efq; Trealurer to the 
India Company, It hath not yet been defcrib’d by any Author that I know of. 
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