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LITTLE BUSTARD. 
The wings, which do not reach to the end of the tail, have 
the first quill feather about an inch shorter than the second, 
which is as long as the third, and both longer than the fourth, 
and the longest in the wing. Greater and lesser wing coverts, 
white; primaries, white at the base, the remainder greyish black; 
secondaries, patched with black and white; tertiaries, pale 
chesnut brown, streaked irregularly with numerous narrow lines 
of black. The tail is of eighteen feathers, white at the base, 
and barred with two narrow black bars, the ends mottled with 
black and buff white, the tips white; upper tail coverts, pale 
chesnut, streaked irregularly with numerous narrow lines of 
black. Legs, toes, and claws, brown. 
Female; head, crown, and neck, pale chesnut, mottled and 
streaked with black; chin, white; breast, marked with short 
bars of black; greater and lesser wing coverts, partly white. 
