Printed on the plate
“Ruffed Bustard”
Otis Houbara
Engraved caption: Ruffed Bustard Otis houbara (Linn.)
Modern identification
Chlamydotis undulata
- Certain
- Bustards · Otididae
Why
Gould's Otis houbara is the African bird: he separates it from Gray's macqueeni, gives N Africa (and Spain), and the figure has rich tawny upperparts. Dresser and Ogilvie-Grant cite the plate under undulata. African Houbara.
Sources
General List (vol. I); engraved caption; Gould's text; Dresser, B. Eur. vii; Sharpe, Cat. Birds BM xxiii; the plate
Who made the plate
No credit line could be read. Credit lines cut off: the sheet ends in the caption.