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T H E GREAT BUSTARD.
Otis-ta la, The Great Rustard, PENN^Brit. -Zool.vol.
MoN^.-Ornith. JDiçt.
[ *BjEVicK,^Br^^®ds'', vôl.^^).v364.
Flem. Brit,-An. pp|PjjrejÉ!i
. Selby, BriuXl^'th.^v.ol.i. p. 442^,^,,
[; Jj'> >»8, B rit. Yeif.„p. U jT
P “ëf^tD^^irds of Ehrdpl/ptrxiii.
Outarde b a r b u e ,Tembi. Man. cFOrnithî p.fÊjÔ'6.
-Otis. Genèric Characters.—Bill moderate, straight, depressed at the base,
the point of tjiempper inaudible curved. Nostrils a little removed from the
baie, lalerlï; oval/and open. 'Legs long, naked above the tarsal joint. Toes
three, all directed, forward, short, united at the-base, and edged with membrane.
Wings of moderate length, in form rather rounded; the third quill-feather the
io'ngest.
T he Great B ustard is a bird of such interest as well
as magnitude, that|@very individual capture becomes a sub-
•jett for, ornitb~®logicalr.i^p(|cd.t Dr. Turner, who wrote in
1544, includes it among his* English birds. In the printed
c a ta lo g u e d the;'consents-r#^®^Tradescant Museum, pre-
sèryed at Sputhf Bambethj ini-1^.6, is ,-“ Thé Bustard, as
| f e 6b a Turltéy, usually, t^l2pu by^rephounds e n Newmarket
Heath ; ^ p n d Mtr$ej% \Pinax rervM' naluralium
Brïiméorwfii-, in 16,6f7,. includes • the Bustard astaken on
Newmarket' Heath' and about Sali^hu^l Montagu notices
*SsOifee.iri|tannè||ofi ithei o.ep®rr'encel of this bird in Devonshire^
a b ^ f ^ ^ t h a t he ?ihenr in Wiltshire. d White of
~ thatffprtion > of his Journal published by Mr.
.T-ilwêiu JafiteftBffife«Volume; Of his Gleanings in Natural
H isteA y iriSA ';# # n t' three-hours of- this day, November
1 % a f t a m i d s t of the downs between
Abdeve,J^amd*s-Winton. The ‘carter told| uèf that about
had sbpn a floqk of eighteen Bustards
.'on. that farm, and once^l^fe önly>tw.o.” White adds in
another p'laeêf *f6 Bustards when ;sfen-| on the downs resemble
fallowjt<fee®$at a distance?^ In DampEs Rural Sports, i t is
1 'sf£|te"|||- “ that o n l f c f ^ th of September 1800, Mr. Grouch
!ifef -Burford khbt' a heufBustard on Salisbury Plain. This
bird was killed at the distan(#%#ffbrty yards with a eommon
fowling-piece, amjMiith/ suc'h 'shot;, -as -is generally used for
r-iphrtïidge-shootihg. . There. w-efe two other Bustards in com-
panyCfwith the oH$:shotf-neither of which appeared to be
hurt^f . Markwick in'* his. Catalogue d the Birds of Sussex,
.published in 1 7 9 8 » « ^ « ^ the;Great Bustard, “ Sometimes