Genus C URSO RUTS, Latk
$$¡É* -Cháb. B e a k shorter th an t fr f he ad, depressed a t m base,
and somewhat cu rv ed and poirsled,. N os tr ils ova!, saríoo'aiatefíf
Tarsi lon g an d slender. Toes th re e before ordy, cQtirely divided , l|||.
eq u a llin g h a lf the len g th of-th e middle toé. Wings lo n g ) th e first and ?»■ •
n e a r ly th e same length ,, and th e g re a te r coverts as lo n g as the qaiU-feytr.!
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most superficial view of the fracture and propOrtSo^«i Ws* MS*g&i;»r aehigfrJK W'O !
csp.ijle us to perceive; that it is a fleet ami rapid coutser, ^edSmriy fitted- fe* $!'y
&i sandy deserts, plains, and ope» tracts of country.
Although in many respects it approaches the Bustards, yet it has with gwni propriety hi- » ??)>
(bat group into a distinct and well-defined genus, which row includes five or s k sp.'des, e'osajy tin
.itSli.ar in form and general habits, and, as well as the genus Otis, strictly confined to the older Scno
of the globe. Africa supplies some peculiar species, continental India cue or two others; and w<
ou-c from the islands of the Indian Archipelago differing from every other.
The present species, the C u n o r iu s lsa o e ilbm s , although frequently visiting Souther n Europe, and'
own island, is, strictly speaking, a native of Northern Africa and Abyssinia, where, Iron,
similarity o f the colour o f its plumage, it finds security among the sandy descit, am’ 'plains, from
hardly be distiegawhad, and where it speeds along vt ah the s 'V ^ ;« >f no, arrow, ¡^pursuit of
consists principally e f ihe irsvvmh peculiar to ,-uc.h skuatioo*. fW .>* nidilk'&Ooii no awthcatic. $j
reached us: hutInost probably, like the Bus fay»., k wci-batts a » v ;r loo#® ■*ta *
the desert.
We have bail the good fort'.».»' •;» o K v . * •'.•> in ft) i she '
which latter do not oiler «|fv mate rial «ijrfei?- ■» pui#Wimgf”. Tive s in.ng, i^h newrfy ..rriy :
swse, may be distinguished by the «Ik«nee oi '¡ifi' **»dk ..- v » » pukh, ‘,w well ar ‘.he band* -A bhid
which pass from behind the eye, ¡’.rid by its [kttrewg* foitvig obscurely waved. ■' itfo dusky, nni
somewhat arrow-shaped markings.
The general plumage o
o f a fteS.esitc lawh’cpkwut sbov* tight« beneath, the c
i p p being black j fro
eye to nhe beck oil" thje .eck c^fceiwls a white lute, i
black portion o f the occip
hiehv from the. aMfU- o f the. eye, runs a ifimilar,’ hut s
.»f black : tail, with the e:
P the Wtt middle feathers, banded near ife. «»trWnity with
with dull white i beak black; legs ligli; colour.
The Plate represents an adult male, aud a young bird, o f the first
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