ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
each). For a full account of this species, vide Mr. Jerdon’s ex- 
cellent article in his “Illustrations of Indian Ornithology,” from 
which we will only quote, that it “lays three or four eggs of a 
thick stunted ovoid form, yery obtuse at the larger end, and ofa 
dark olive colour.” Our sporting authority remarks, that “i 
walking, the Sikh carries its head very gracefully, moving it 
backwards and forwards with each step, the broad head and long 
thin neck appearing over the grass, gives it much the resemblance 
of a cobra snake; and no doubt this graceful motion gaye rise to 
the native provincial name of Chulla Churj.” Other names cited 
by him, are, ‘* Nehla, Newalia, Oorail, and Abluk Chereei.” 
The same writer supplies the only notice we haye seen, beyond 
records of its abundant slaughter in Sindh, &c., of the Indian Hou- 
bara. ‘ Hurriana,” he remarks, “has also its Floriken j which, 
however, is a very different bird from the Floriken of the plains of 
the Ganges, and is, in fact, the” (Indian) “ Houbara or Rufiled 
Bustard, so called from the ruff of feathers on each side of the 
neck, and supposed to be a bird of the very highest flavour. * * * 
It frequents the same country as” ZH. edwardii, “ dry sandy plains, 
where there is a little grass, and is also found in wheat and grain 
fields. The native name for it is Tilaor. The flesh is exceedingly 
tender, and so covered with fat, that the skins are with difficulty 
dried and preserved. For an elaborate account of this species, vide 
Blyth, in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. xvi. 786. Captain Thos, Hutton 
there states of it—“ These handsome birds are common on the 
bare stony plains of Affghanistan, and sometimes occur in small 
packs of five or six together. They fly heavily and for short dis- 
tances, soon alighting’ and running. They remain all the year. 
The Affghan or Pushtu name is Dugdaoor, 
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