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MACQUEEN’S BUSTARD. 
RUFFED BUSTARD. 
Otis macqueenii , Gray. 
Otis — A Bustard. Macqueenii — Of Macqueen. 
This species has been confounded with the Houbara or 
Ruffed Bustard, but the length of the wings, which in the 
present one reach quite to the end of the tail, at once dis¬ 
tinguishes them. 
The only British, or, I believe, European specimen of this 
Bustard at present on record, was shot at Kirton in Lindsay, 
Lincolnshire, on the 7th. of October, 1847, by Mr. George 
Hansley; it is now in the Rudston Read collection of British 
Birds in the York Museum, where I have seen it. A very 
excellent likeness, with an account of it, is given in ‘The 
Naturalist,’ vol. ii., page 89, by my brother, Beverley R. 
Morris, Esq. 
Macqueen’s Bustard is so very closely allied to the Houbara, 
that I should suppose that both are to be found in the same 
districts. The latter, as those who have read the second 
volume of Mr. Layard’s deeply interesting ‘Nineveh and its 
Remains’ will at once recall to mind, is very plentiful in 
Arabia and on the wide plains of Messapotamia, where the 
wandering tribes hunt them with Hawks trained for the 
purpose. Doubtless they are to be met with likewise in the 
more northern regions where the renowned Hippomolgians 
find pasture for the noble animals who are their all. Glorious 
scenes are those eastern lands, and wonderful as are the 
monuments of three thousand years antiquity which there 
bring, as it were, the departed Assyrians again before us to 
admire their vast and so enduring works, still more striking 
