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The ARABIAN BusTARD. 
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Ap HIS Bird is about the Bignefs ae. a Turkey, it is longer leg’d and neck’d, and 
flenderer body’ d than the common Buftard : 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; it increales in 
Breadth, and forms a fort of black Creft, from which Creft proceeds a fhort black Line; 
and reaches almoft to the hinder Part of the Eye ; the Neck, forward, is Afh-colour’d, 
with {mall tran{verle Lines of a darker Colour ; the hinder fate of Ee Neck and Back 
the prime Quills are black, che iddlemoe: are Pe 
the above-mentioned Bar, drawn obliquely. down the Wings te inner Ou A ai 
Back, are of the fame Colour with it; the breaft, Belly ae ‘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, t the under Side of the Taii hath 
a Bar of Black acrofs it, neat the Me of ine Feathers ; : ae: vat are pretty long; it 
the eee are bare 
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Colour 
This Bird was kept alive mat Years t., my H@goured 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 prefented to Sir Hams Sloane, by Charles Dubots, Efq; Treafurer to the Indig 
Company. It bath not yet been defcrib’ d ae any Author that I know of. 
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