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nothing in Kolben’s defcription * to confirm his fuppofition, ex-*-
cept it be his figure of it, which feems fpotted with white.
INDIAN B.
Xe Grand Pluvier de Bengale, B rif orn. v. p. 82. 1 j .
Xe Churge, ou l’Outarde Moyenne des Indes, Buf. oif. ii. p. 56.
Indian Buftard, Edw. pi. 250.
D escription. JT E N G T H twenty-three inches ; height, when (landing,
twenty. The bill two inches three quarters long, fomewhat
bent towards the end of a whitilh colour : the eyes very large r
irides hazel : eyelids cinereous : fides of the head round the eyes
brown: the reft of the head, the neck, and under parts, black,
the feathers hanging loofe : back, rump, and tail, bright brown,
the middle of each feather black: a bar of brown, fpotted with
black, pafies all round the bread : tail brown, barred and fpotted
with black: the wing coverts white, a few of the outer ones
only margined with black; the quills white on the outfide, and
cinereous at the tip j the fecondaries white, fpotted with black,
and crofled with black bands ; fome of them neareft the body.
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grey, marked with fmall black fpots : legs whitilh: claws brown.
Inhabits Bengal f , where it is called Churge. This feems
fomewhat allied to the laft, and is perhaps a variety of the fame
* It runs thus : This bird is of the fize of a Common Hem. The bill is fhort
*e and black : the feathers on the crown of the head are black; the reft are a.
“ motley of red, white* and afh-colour : the legs are yellow1: the wings are very
“ fmall for a bird of fuch a fize. This bird therefore cannot fly far at once.”
f It may perhaps prove to be the bird called by Adanfont Large Eyes. He
fays it is as large as a Hen : the head bears no proportion to the eyes : three
toes, like a Buftard; and, like that bird, the feathers grey mixed with white z.
the flefh tender, and may be eaten,—Adanf. Senegal, p. 77.
bird.
bird. Edwards copied it from a drawing, and I do not hear
of the bird itfeif being in the poflfeflion of any one.
Xe Houbara, ou petite Outarde huppée d’Afrique, Buf. oif. ii. p. ;g.—
Shaw's fra v . p. 25 Z. pi, oppof. f. 1.
O I Z E of a Capon., but longer. Bill near an inch and a half
long, and flat, like a Starling’s : the body is of a light dun or
yellowifh colour, marked all over with little brown fpots: neck
feathers whitilh, ftreaked with black, and very long, capable of
being ereifted, as in the Cock and Ruff*-, large wing feathers
black, each of them marked with a white (pot near the middle :
the bird has only three toes. So far Shaw’s defcription ; who
fays, that it frequents the defarts of Arabia, and feeds on (hrubs
and infefts. It is often purfued by the Hawk, when it makes a
variety of flights and ftratagems in order to efcape.
Le Rhaad, Buf. oif ii. p. 61.—Shaw's Trav. p. 255.. pi-, oppoflte, F. 2-,
Q F this, he fays, there are two forts; the firft is the fize o f the
Houbaara, or laft fpecies. The bill and legs ftrong: the
head black j at the hind part a tuft of a dark blue colour : the
upper part of the body, and wings, yellow, fpotted with brown .
the belly white: the tail pale brown, crofled with tranfverfe
(tripes of black.
The fmaller one is only of the fize of a Common Fowl, and has
not the creft behind the head: the back and legs are ftrono-er
than thofe of the Partridge: the markings much the fame as in
the other. Both have three toes only.
* In the plate the head feems furnilhed with a creft.
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