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bustard

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

  See also: Canada goose  

  • 1744  They have there also all Sorts of Wild-fowl, as Swans, Bustards, Geese, Cranes. . . .
  • 1844  (1955)  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). . . .