. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. OTIDID^. 527. MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD. Otis macqueeni, J. E. Gray. This species, which might with advantage be called the Asiatic Ruflfed Bustard, occasionally wanders across Europe to England. In October 1847 a bird—now in the Museum of the Philosophical Society at York—-was shot in a stubble-field near Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire; on October 5th 1892, an adult male, now in the Newcastle Museum, was obtained near Redcar; and on October 17 th 1896, a third was secured, near the Spurn, Holderness. It is tolerably certain that the five Ruffed Busta
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. OTIDID^. 527. MACQUEEN'S BUSTARD. Otis macqueeni, J. E. Gray. This species, which might with advantage be called the Asiatic Ruflfed Bustard, occasionally wanders across Europe to England. In October 1847 a bird—now in the Museum of the Philosophical Society at York—-was shot in a stubble-field near Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire; on October 5th 1892, an adult male, now in the Newcastle Museum, was obtained near Redcar; and on October 17 th 1896, a third was secured, near the Spurn, Holderness. It is tolerably certain that the five Ruffed Bustards recorded from Northern Germany between the years 1800 and 1847 were all examples of O. macqueeni, and not of its closely-allied African re- presentative, O. undulata : the existence of two distinct species being unknown to Naumann and others. A genuine Macqueen's Bustard, killed near Utrecht in December 1850, is in the Museum at Leiden, while three specimens have been obtained in Belgium, one on the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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