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with the same blackish shafts ; cheeks white, the fore-part 
streaked with black shafts ; chin and upper throat white : sides 
of neck black, commencing in a streak close behind the ear- 
coverts and extending into a ruff of stiffened feathers, the basal 
plumes black, the succeeding ones white, with broad black 
tips, succeeded by a tuft of feathery white plumes; lower 
throat and fore-neck bluish-grey, the former obscured by 
sandy-buff, slightly freckled with black ; the plumes of the fore- 
neck elongated and bluish-grey, with white tips; remainder of 
under surface of body white, with some freckled feathers on 
the sides of the upper breast, and some black cross-bars on 
the under tail- coverts, all of the latter plumes with a concealed 
tinge of pink at the base; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
pure white ; bill bluish or dusky above, paler, usually greenish 
or yellowish, on the gape and lower mandible ; feet pale yellow, 
never clean and bright, mostly with a dingy greenish or plum- 
beous tinge, at times creamy ; iris varying from pale to bright 
yellow. Total length, 28 inehes ; culmen, i‘8 ; wing, 157 ; 
tail, 9'5 ; tarsus, 4-9. 
Adult Female, — Smaller than the male, with the crest and ruff 
less developed, the freckling on the lower throat and fore-neck 
rather coarser. Total length, 23 inches ; culmen, 1-65 ; wing, 
i6'o ; tail, yo ; tarsus, 37. 
Young Birds. — Resemble the old female, but always to be dis- 
tinguished by the arrow-head markings of sandy-buff on the 
upper surface. The grey on the fore-neck is obscured by 
sandy frecklings, and the white primaries are deeply tinged 
with sandy-buff. The frill is always much smaller, and only a 
few elongated feathers represent the crest of the adults, these 
plumes being coarsely freckled with black. 
Range in Great Britain. — One of our rarest visitors, only two 
examples being known to have occurred within our limits, one 
leaving been killed near Kirton-in-Lindsey in Lincolnshire in 
October, 1847, and another nearRedcar in October, 1892. 
Range outside the British Islands. — The breeding-place of INIac- 
queen’s Bustard appears to be the steppes of Central Asia as 
far east as the Altai Mountains and the Baikal district. In 
winter it is found in great abundance in North-western India 
and Sind, and it also winters in Persia and Baluchistan, as far as 
