bustard

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of large gray goose, Branta canadensis, with a black head and neck and white cheek patches.

Quotations

1744

They have there also all Sorts of Wild-fowl, as Swans, Bustards, Geese, Cranes. . . .

1844

The Canada goose or bustard has the weakness always to come back when it is called.

1954

There was the common white goose, the bustard (they called it that, but in reality it was a big Canadian barnacle goose). . . .