GEEAT BUSTARD. 
which they are tinted with reddish orange; underneath it is 
barred with dusky grey; upper tail coverts, pale cliesnut, barred 
with black; under tail coverts, white. The legs, covered with 
round scales, toes, and claws, blackish, the latter three in 
number. 
Female; length, three feet; the head and neck are of a deeper 
grey, nape, reddish orange; the chin is without the plume 
until the bird is of mature age—three or four years old, and 
then it is said to appear, but less developed than in the male. 
The young at first are covered with buff-coloured down, 
barred on the back, wings, and sides with black. 
The plate is from a beautiful drawing obligingly made for 
this work by John Gatcombe, Esq., of Plymouth. 
