bustard

• The ancient flute was made from the bones of bustard, a kind of bird usually seen in Northeast China. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
• We may imagine that the early progenitor of the ostrich had habits like those of a bustard, and that as natural selection increased in successive generations the size and weight of its body, its legs were used more, and its wings less, until they became incapable of flight Kirby has remarked (and I have observed the same fact) that the anterior tarsi, or feet, of many male dung-feeding beetles are very often broken off; he examined seventeen specimens in his own collection, and not one had even a relic left. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
• He then commenced uttering a call, exactly similar to that made by the male of the kori when challenging an adversary to combat Like the grouse, the bustard is polygamous, and of course terribly jealous and pugnacious, at certain seasons of the year. —  The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
• Since the extirpation of the native race the bustard is known to Great Britain only by occasional wanderers, straying most likely from the open country of Champagne or Saxony, and occurring in one part or another of the United Kingdom some two or three times every three or four years, and chiefly in midwinter An adult male will measure nearly 4 ft. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• From there one can hunt the great bustard, and I had hoped to do so until I saw the animals that were to take us to the coast. —  Morocco

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