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G e n u s L V I . B U S T A R D .
10. Paffarage B,
I.ittle Biiibrd, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 799'. TPa.
Otis tctrax, Faun. Arag, p. 79.
Y H I S fpecies is faid to be not uncommon in Spain as- well as
France,, and the flelb is by fbme thought to tafte moll like
that o f an Hare. M r . Funjlall has one of thefe in his mufeum,
which was lhot in, Sujfex, which, he informs me, proved a male on
dilfeftion, although the black on the neck, the chara&eriftic o f
that lex, was wholly wanting, and fuppofed, before it was opened,
to have been a female. This is very frequent in the fouthern and
louth-weft plains o f RuJJia, and in fmall flocks when it migrates.
I t continues a good way into the deferts o f Fart ary, but is never
feen in Sibiria *.
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ARABIAN B.
Arabian Ballard, Gen. Syn. iv. p. 801. N" 3.
Le Paon fauvage de I’lfle de Lu$on, Son. Voy. p. 85. t. 49.
D escription, |* E N G T H three feet. The bill long, pointed, ftrait, and a
little enlarged at the end 3 colour dulky b la ck : the head,
neck, and breaft, are light grey, marked with femicircular
lines of bla ck: on the head is a long tuft o f feathers ending in a
point, which the bird carries horizontally: the fuperior feathers
• Arft* Zool*
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o f this creft are black 5 thofe below grey, banded with bla ck:
back, wings, and tail, brown : baftard wing white, margined with
grey : belly white: toes three in number, all placed forwards,
and united to the firft joint.
This bird inhabits all the Philippine IJlands and the Cape of Placi .
Good Hope. It is called Peacock by the natives, but on what account
is very uncertain j or whether its aftions or attitudes cor-
refpond with thole of that bird. The above is Sonnerat’s defcrip-
tion, by which it feems to me clearly to be the Arabian Bujlard,
and not a cjiftindt Ipecies.
White-eared Buftard, Gen. Syn. iv. p, 802. N° 4.' ^,
WHITE-EARED
*JpH IS bird (the Knorrhane) has the art o f concealing itfelf per- "*
fedtly till one comes pretty near i t ; when on a fudden it foars
aloft and almoft perpendicular into the air, with a Iharp, hafty,
quavering fcream o f korrh, korrh, which is an alarm to the animals
throughout the whole neighbourhood *.
Our laft voyagers met with a Buftard on the coaft o f New Holland,
in Bujlard Bay, which weighed lixteen pounds ; but we have
no other account o f it, than its having a black band acrofs the
breaft. We can likewife add, on the authority o f the late Captain
King, that he met with great flocks o f a large kind of Bujlard
on the plains near Norton Sound, north latitude 64-1. No defcrip-
tion whatever could be obtained o f the fpecies, as they were very
Ihy, ran very faft, and for a confiderable time before they took
wing, fo that he could never get one fhot at them f .
• Sfarrm. Voy, i. p. 153. f Aril, Zool.
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