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THE LITTLE BUSTARD. 
Otis minor. — Willoughby. 
PLATE III. 
Otis tetrax, Linn . — Outard cannepetiere, Buff, and Temm . — 
Little, or Lesser Bustard of British authors. 
Tiieiie appear to be several small species of Bustard, 
which are subject to a much greater charge of 
plumage than the last or some of the large Indian 
and African birds, and it is the case with this very 
rare British visitant, which, however, is only seen 
here in its less obtrusive garb, or that assumed after 
incubation has ceased. Specimens have occurred 
in Cornwall, Devonshire, Hampshire, Oxford, and 
Kent, also in Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, York- 
shire, and Northumberland, becoming more rare 
northward. Once only has it occurred in Scotland 
that we are aware of, that mentioned by Mr. Yarrell 
as having been killed near Montrose, in the winter 
of 1833 ; and, in Ireland, two are recorded by 
Mr. Thomson to have been seen in the county of 
"Wicklow, in August of the same year, one of which 
was procured.* In its extra British distribution it 
is not very widely spread, and on the continent is 
* Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1835, p. 79. 
