. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . s, trans-versed with interrupted bars of black. The head,neck, and breast are bluish-grey, shading at thelower part of the breast into pale grey and purewhite. Outer coverts, greyish white, secondaries,deep browTi-black: very powerful quills, the firstshai-p, the under with their outer web expanding,and becoming brown or black at their mid-tail feathers, reddish-orange, with white tips,and a black
. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . s, trans-versed with interrupted bars of black. The head,neck, and breast are bluish-grey, shading at thelower part of the breast into pale grey and purewhite. Outer coverts, greyish white, secondaries,deep browTi-black: very powerful quills, the firstshai-p, the under with their outer web expanding,and becoming brown or black at their mid-tail feathers, reddish-orange, with white tips,and a black bar, crossing at about an inch from theend, and then a narrower one towards the characters: bill almost straight, depressedslightly at the base; open nostrils ; long legs; thetarsi naked above the knees; toes, three forwards,bordered with a scutellated membrane; and shortwings, powerful; second, third, and fourth quillslargest, nearly equal; first narrow towards the point. BUSTAED SHOOTING. 117 Type: Otis tarda; Europe, Asia, Africa, New Hol-land. Note. — Inhabit open plains and champaigncountries, where vegetation is rankly luxuriant: poly-gamous ; nm THE LITTLE The Little Bustard {Otu Miiior). This is anunfrequent British visitant; subject to a very greatchange of plumage, of which we cannot accuratelyspeak, since it appears in England only after incubationis over, and in its more homely garb. One was killednear Montrose, in Scotland, in the winter of 1833.
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