Place aud
Manners.
.Female.
The bird defcribed in the Br. Zoel. feems to differ a little, as
the bread: and outer tail feathers are plain white.
This bird is found in many parts of Europe, but has been only
met with three or four times in England, and all the fpecimens
females; though this may be well accounted for, as there are moft
of that fex, it being polygamous *. The males are faid to fight
with each other vigoroufly, and each to keep mafter of a certain
diftrift. It is frequent in France s and is alfo feen in other parts,
though more rare. Linnaeus mentions it in his Swedijh Catalogue
f ; hut fays it is not common.
The female lays her eggs in June, from three to five in number,
of a gloffy green colour: the young follow her as foon as
hatched, like chickens, and fquat on the leaft noife. They are
able to fly by the middle of Auguft.
This is a Ihy fpecies, like the former, and crafty: if difturbed,
will fly for two or three hundred paces, not far from the ground,
and then run fafter than a man can follow on foot £. Said to
feed on all forts of grain, ants, beetles, and green corn. It is frequently
taken in France in nets, like the Partridge, as well as by
hawking.' The flefh is blackilh in colour, yet is much efteemed,
being of a very high flavour. The eggs are alfo accounted a
delicacy.
* One male fufficient for many females.— Salem.
t This is denied in Hift. des oif.— Buffon lhould have read the laft edition of
the Faun. Suec. as well as the firft.
J From this cunning, a proverb has arifen in France, that fuch a man “ plays
.* the Land Duck.”
9 Otis
Otii Arabs, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 264; 2.
■ L’Outarde d’Arabie, Brif. orniv. p, 30. N° 3.
Le Lohong, ou l’Outarde huppe d’Arabie, Buf. oif. ii. p. 52.
Arabian Ballard, Edna. pi. 12.
g I Z E of the Great Buftard, but the bill, neck, and legs, are
longer. The bill pale horn-colour : irides dull brown : the
back part of the head crefted and black ; the forehead whitilh ;
on each fide of the head a black mark, palling into the creft behind
; the reft of the head, the neck, and upper, parts of the
body, are rufous, mixed with black, giving the appearance of
the markings of a Woodcock: the throat and fore part of the
neck alh-colour, croffed with brown lines : bread and under parts
white : quills black; the fecondaries black and white, in fpots ;
thofe neareft the body rufous, croffed with blackilh: the two
middle tail feathers of this laft colour ; the others white, a little
mottled, and croffed with a band of black: legs pale brown.
Found in Arabia Felix. Edwards faw one of thefe alive in
London, which came from Mocha, where it is known by the name
of Lohong.
This is, without doubt, the Flying O f rich of Le Maire and
Adanfon *, and not the next, as Buffon f fuppofes. The long
neck, the creft, and fize, all proclaim that it can by nb means be
the following, which Linnaus has defcribed with his ufual per-
fpicuity and concifenefs, and which is fcarce one third of the fize.
* Voy. de la Maire, p. 106.—Ad&nf, Setieg. Eng. ed. p, 294.
t Hijlu dee oifi ii. p. 54,
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