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BUSTARD. 
of a dirty white, spotted and veined with reddish brown and ash-colonr; 
their weight about one dram. 
* These birds are sometimes broiig-ht to market, and sold for larks, to 
which they are little or nothing- inferior, but are easily distinguished by 
the form of the bill, and the tooth-like knob in the roof of the mouth, 
by the most common observer.* It is observed in small flocks as far 
north as Zetland in the winter, but returns in the spring. 
* Bechstein informs us that this species is pretty generally spread 
throughout Europe and the north of Asia, and is common in many 
parts of Germany, where it frequents the fields, meadow’s, and high- 
v/ays, perching on the topmost branches of willows and other trees in 
the hedge-rows, or on a mound or knoll, but the latter does not 
accord with our observations. They are caught in Germany by means 
of a decoy bird in the autumn, and in winter about the farm-yard, 
with a lime twig attached to a stick ; in spring they are taken by means 
of a bird-call.* 
BUNTING CROW. — A name for the Crow. 
BUNTING LARK. — A name for the Bunting. 
BURSA FABRICIL— *A bag or purse of curious structure, 
which secretes a thick mucus. It is connected with the straight 
gut (^RectuTn), * 
BUSTARD (^Otis tarda, Linnaeus.) 
*Otis tarda, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 264. 1 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 722. sp. 1. — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. p. 658. sp. 1 — Rail, Syn. p. 58. A. J — Will. p. 129. t. 32 Briss. 5. 
p. 18. 1 L’Outarde, Buff. Ois. 2. p. 1. t. 1 — Ib. pi. Enl. 245. male. — 
Outarde barbae, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 506 — Der Grosse Trappe, Bechst. 
Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 1432 Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 308. — Frisch, Vbg. 
t. 106. female, and No. 106. Sapp, the male — Great Bastard, Br. Zool. 1. No. 
98. t. 44. male, bad fig — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 186. — Ih. Sapp. p. 63 Will. 
(Ang.) p. 178. t. 32. — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 796 Albin, 3. t. 38, 39 Fdw. t. 79, 
80. — Lewins Br. Birds, 4. t. 139. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Ib. Sapp. — Wale. Syn. 
2. t. 173. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 6. — Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 314. correct 
fig. of male. — Selby, pi. 64. p. 326.* 
This is the largest of the British birds, sometimes weighing- as much 
as thirty pounds. The bill is dusky ; irides light hazel ; head and neck 
ash-coloured, inclining to brown on the top of the head ; the lower 
part of the neck behind almost bare of feathers ; the back and lesser 
coverts of the wings elegantly barred with black and light rust colour ; 
greater coverts pale cinereous ; quills black, slightly tipped with white ; 
belly white ; the tail consists of twenty feathers ; the middle ones are of 
a light rust colour, barred with black ; the two outer ones almost white ; 
with two or three small bars of black ; legs dusky brown. 
The female weighs about ten or twelve pounds. The crown of the 
head is deep orange-brown, crossed with transverse black lines ; the rest 
