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7 he Arabian Bustard, 
T HIS Bird is about the Bignefs of a Turkey, it is longer leg’d and neck’d, and 
flenderer body’d than the common Bujiard: It hath a Bill longer than is com¬ 
mon to the Poultry-kind, of which this is a Species : From the Point of the Bill to 
the Angles of the Mouth is three Inches and a Half; the Bill is of a light Horn- 
colour, a little darker at the Point; the Noftrils are long, and placed near the Fore¬ 
head; the Eyes are of a dark Colour ; the Fore part of the Head is white ; above the 
Eye is a Line of black, ending in a Point toward the Forehead backward; itincreafes in 
Breadth, and forms a fort of black Creft, from which Creft proceeds a fliort black Line; 
and reaches almoft to the hinder Part of the Eye ; the Neck, forward, is Afh-colour’d, 
with fmall tranfverfe Lines of a darker Colour ; the hinder Part of the Neck and Back 
are of a brown Colour, with line tranfverfe blackilh Lines; the Coverts of the Wings 
of the fame Colour with the Back, the Tips of the Feathers being white, form Spots like 
Half-moons; the ridge of the Wing in the upper Part is White, from whence proceeds 
a broad white Bar, that feparates the Covert from the Quill-feathers; this Bar is fprink- 
led with fmall black. Spots, few or none in the upper Part, thickly, ftrewed in the 
lower; the baftard Wing is black, the Feathers having white Tips ; the fore mod; of 
the prime Quills are black, the middlemoft are fpotted black and white, being part of 
the above-mentioned Bar, drawn obliquely down the Wing; the inner Quills, next the 
Back, are of the fame Colour with it; the bread. Belly, Thighs, and whole under 
Side, are purely White; the Tail on the upper Side, is colour’d like the Back, tho’ the 
outer Webs of the outfide Feathers are partly White, the under Side of the Tail hath 
a Bar of Black acrofs it, near the Tips of the Feathers ; the Legs are pretty long; it 
has only three Toes, which are very fhort, all {landing forward; the Legs are bare 
of Feathers for fome Space above the knees; both Legs and Feet are cover’d with a 
fcaley Skin of a dirty white or light brownifh Colour; the Claws of the fame 
Colour 
This Bird was kept alive many Years by my honoured Patron Sir Hans Sloane , Bart, 
at his Houfe in London , whofe Goodnefs always gave me free Leave to draw any curi¬ 
ous thing he had in his Poffeffion. This Bird was brought from Mocha in Arabia 
Felix , and prelented to Sir Hans Slo'ane , by Charles Dubois , Efq; Treasurer to the India 
Company. It hath not yet been defcrib’d by any Author that I know of. 
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