T A B . XXXIII.
O T I S INDICA.
CHARACTER GENERICUS.
Roßrum mandibula fuperlore fornicata.
Nares ovatse.
Lingua bifida.
Pedes curforii, tetrada£lyli. LIN. SYST. N A T . p. 264.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Otis fufca nigro undulata, fubtus fufco-albida, gula alba, vertice nigro, lateribus capitis fafcia
nigra. LATH. IND. ORN. p. 661.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Bill with the upper mandible fornicated (arched).
Nojlrils ovate.
Tongue bifid.
Feel formed for running, four-toed.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c.
Brown Buftard, imdulated with black, beneath whitifh, with white throat; the top of the head
black, with a black band on each fide.
\Vliite-chinned Buftard. LATH. SYN. 2. p. 806.
THE birds of tlie genus Otis commonly frequent open plains, where they feed on worms and
vegetables: they run with great fwiftnefs, and, when provoked to flight, are capable of continuing
it for a long time. Moft of the fpecies are birds of very confiderable fize: the common
European Buftard, or Otis tarda of Linna;us, which is not unfrequently feen in fome parts
of our own country, is the largeft of the genus; in that fpecies Nature has given an extraordinary
refervoir or internal pouch to the male bird, which is fituated in the fore part of the