SC - Buffalo- Washingto

[James and/or Nancy Gilly]

At 17:39 26-1-98 +0000, brid wrote:
>Somebody
>earlier brought up bustard birds as something that was eaten in period and is
>now extinct...


???

*Britannica*:

         bustard, common name for medium- to large-sized game birds
     of the family Otididae, related to the cranes and rails in the
     order Gruiformes.  There are about 23 species, confined to Africa,
     southern Europe, Asia, Australia, and part of New Guinea.  About
     1 metre (40 inches) tall, bustards have rather long legs, adapted
     to running.  They have only three toes, lacking the hind toe
     (hallux).  The body is compact, carried in a rather horizontal
     position, anf the neck stands erect, forward of the legs, in the
     manner of other tall running birds.
         The best known bustard is the great bustard (*Otis tarda*),
     largest European land bird, the male weighing as much as 14
     kilograms (31 pounds) and having a 120-centimetre (4-foot) length
     and a 240-centimetre wingspread.  It is found in grainfields and
     open steppes from central and southern Europe to Central Asia and
     Manchuria....
         The little bustard (*Otis tetrax*) ranges from western Europe
     and Morocco to Afghanistan....

(*Encyclopaedia Britannica*, 15th edition, vol II, p 402.  Copyright 1977 by
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.)


Alasdair mac Iain

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