120 
LITTLE BUSTARD. 
feathers white, the ends mottled with black and 
buffy-w'hite, crossed with two narrow bars of black, 
the extreme tips white; the breast, and all the 
under surface of the body, white; legs, toes, and 
claws, clay-brown.”* In another specimen before 
us, probably of a female, from the continent, we 
have the ground colour of the upper parts, except 
on the neck, nearly black, very much cut into upon 
the edges, and on the surface marked with wavy 
bars of ochreous-yellow and pale reddish-orange ; 
throat and chin pale yellowish-white ; on the neck 
the dark shade is nearly deep wood-brown, the centre 
of each feather being pale ochreous ; on the breast, 
the pale colour becomes the prevailing tint, the 
feathers distinctly barred with blackish-brown ; the 
belly, flanks, and under tail-covers, pure white, the 
barrings confined to the flanks, and then taking the 
form of lengthened cross spots, the shaft being 
marked with a thread of black ; the edges of the 
wings white ; the quills wood-brown, white at the 
base ; upper tail-covers with white tips, which form 
a pale basal band ; the tail itself white, barred and 
irregularly marked with black ; the centre feathers 
tinted with ochreous. 
* Yarrell ii. p. 374. 
