. A history of British birds . he neck belowwithout any appearance of transverse bars at any season;the wing-coverts have less white than those of the males;the white feathers on the breast, sides, and flanks aremarked with short transverse bars of black. Females inother respects resemble the males. In recently killedexamples, the bases of the feathers, excepting those of thehead and neck, are frequently suftused with a delicate, andevanescent, rose tint, similar to that which has been men-tioned as occurring in the previous species. A bird in down obtained in the department of Seine-et-Marne
. A history of British birds . he neck belowwithout any appearance of transverse bars at any season;the wing-coverts have less white than those of the males;the white feathers on the breast, sides, and flanks aremarked with short transverse bars of black. Females inother respects resemble the males. In recently killedexamples, the bases of the feathers, excepting those of thehead and neck, are frequently suftused with a delicate, andevanescent, rose tint, similar to that which has been men-tioned as occurring in the previous species. A bird in down obtained in the department of Seine-et-Marne has the uj)per parts fawn-coloured with broad patchesof blackish-brown; from the base of the bill to the auriclea reddish-brown streak, and a white streak from the bill tothe eye; throat and upper part of neck pure white, withrusty yellow markings so disposed as to indicate faintly theoutlines of the collar and gorget afterwards borne by themale only; breast and abdomen dull white. macqueens bustard. ALECTORIDES. 221 Otis macqueeni, J. E. Gray.*MACQUEENS BUSTARD. Otis Macqueeni. The interest which attaches to this bird is greatly en-hanced hy its being added to the list of European species,and to the Fauna of our own island; a fine specimen, inthe Museum of the Philosophical Society at York, havingbeen shot by Mr. G. Hunsley in a stubble-field on Kirton * Illustrations of Iiulican Zoology, ii. pi. 47 (1833-35). 222 Cliff, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, on the 7th of October,1847 (Zool. pp. 1969, 2065, 2146). This is the onlyspecimen obtained in Great Britain down to the presenttime. On the Continent the visits of this Asiatic bird havebeen more frequent, although there is difficulty in identify-ing some of the earlier occurrences, owing to this specieshaving been formerly confused with the closely allied Africanrepresentative O. nnclidata. Modern research, whereverpracticable, renders it, however, tolerably certain that thefive Houbara Bustards recorded a
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