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allen’s naturai.ist’s library. 
no ornamental whisker-like plumes, but on the nape is a full 
crest of elongated feathers. The tarsus is very short. 
I. THE LITTLE BUSTARD. TETRAX TETRAX. 
Oiis ietrax, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 264 (1766) ; Macg. Brit. B. 
P- 35 (1852); Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 382, pi. 509 
(1872) ; B. 0 . U. List Brit. B. p. 154 (1883); Seebohm, 
Brit. B. iii. p. 587 (1884); Saunders, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. 
iii. p. 216 (1883); id. Man. Brit. B. p. 511 (1S89); Lil- 
ford. Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxiv. (1893). 
Tetrax ietrax^ Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 289 (1894). 
{Plate LXXV.) 
Adult Male. — Sandy-butf, vermiculated and blotched with 
black ; quilts white, blackish towards their ends, and white at 
the tips ; the outer primaries blacki.sh, with white bases, the 
white gradually increasing towards the secondaries, which are 
almost entirely white with an occasional spot of black, the 
innermost secondaries like the back ; tail with four black bars, 
the basal half white, the outer feathers broadly tipped with 
creamy-white ; crown of heafl, nape, and hind-neck brown, 
mottled with streaks and edges of sandy-buff, with which a few 
blue-grey feathers are intermixed; lores and sides of crown 
pale sandy-buff, streaked with dark brown ; feathers above and 
round the eye uniform creamy-buff; sides of face, ear-coverts, 
cheeks, and throat liglit bluish-grey, bordered by a broad band 
of black, which extends from the sides of the hind-neck 
diagonally across the latter, and unites in a broad band which 
runs down the centre of the lower throat ; round the hind- 
neck, and occupying the sides of the latter, is a broad patch of 
black, uniting on the upper fore-neck ; this is bordered above 
by a broad band of white which encircles the hind-neck, sepa- 
rates the black on the sides of the neck, and descending on 
the latter to the lower throat, unites there in a point ; across 
the lower fore-neck is a broad hand of black which is separated 
from the lower throat by a band of white, which traverses the 
fore-neck also ; remainder of under surface of body pure 
white ; bill horn-grey, black at the tip, dull yellowish at the 
base of the lower mandible ; feet dull ochre-yellow ; iris yellow- 
ish. Total length, 17 indies; culmen, 1-5 ; wing, 9-4; tail, 
37 ; tarsus, 2-4. 
