Jl8 BRITISH BIRDS', 
LITTLE BUSTARD. 
{Otis TetraXy Lin . — Le petite Outarde y Buff.) 
Len gth only feventeen inches : The bill is pale 
brown ; eyes red ; the top of the head is black, 
fpotted with pale rull colour ; the fides of the head, 
chin, and throat, are of a reddilh white, marked 
with a few dark fpots ; the whole neck is black, 
encircled with an irregular band of white near the 
top and bottom ; the back and wings are ruft co- 
lour, mottled with brown, and croffed with fine ir- 
regular black lines ; the under parts of the body, 
and outer edges of the wings are white ; the tail 
confifts of eighteen feathers— the middle ones are 
