AVIS-IBIS

Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Genus OTIS

Genus OTIS.

=a kind of Bustard with long ear-feathers, known to the Greeks; from ofo, genit., an ear.

Short and stout limbs and bill. Long white moustachial tuft. Third quill longest. No crest or ruff. Palaearctic.

BookTitle: 
Game, Shore And Water Birds Of India
Reference: 
Le Messurier, Augustus. Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India Fourth Edition, 1904.
Title in Book: 
Genus OTIS
Book Author: 
A Le Messurier
Year: 
1904
Page No: 
138
M_ID: 
3245
M_SN: 
Otis
Volume: 
4th ed.
Term name: 
id: 
12829

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