LITTLE BUSTARD. 
LESSEE EUSTAED. 
Otis tetrax , Pennant. Montagu. 
Otis —A Bustard. 
Tetrax —. 
The great deserts of Tartary are among the principal 
strongholds of these birds, and there vast nomade tribes of 
them are to be seen, wandering thence in various directions 
to the district of the Caucasus, and especially towards the 
Caspian Sea, the south and south-west of Russia, and the 
south of Siberia, Turkey, and Greece, and some are found also 
in Italy, Sardinia, and Spain. They likewise are natives of 
the north of Africa, and of Asia. 
A good many instances of the occurrence of this bird 
have been recorded, all of them in the winter half of the 
year. In Yorkshire one was shot January 14th., 1854, at 
Goodmanham, near Market Weighton, by the Rev. W. Blow; 
another, formerly, on the Wolds, and one at Boythorpe, also 
in the East Riding, early in 1839; one near Beverley; and 
in the winter of 1814-15 two were seen near Elamborough, 
one of which was killed. In Northumberland two, one near 
W ark worth in the autumn of 1821, and the other near Twizell 
the 1st. of February, 1823. In Hampshire one at Heron 
Court, near Christchurch, the seat of Lord Malmesbury. In 
Essex one at Harwich in January, 1823, one at Little Clacton 
in the winter of 1824, and one several years since at Writtle, 
near Chelmsford. In Norfolk several have occurred, one, as 
Mr. Robert Drane informs me, between Yarmouth and Win- 
terton, about the 30th. of December, 1853; it was imagined 
to be ‘some sort of Cochin-China Guinea-fowl;’ also others in 
Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. One was shot, as William 
