It is named after the British soldier and collector General Thomas MacQueen.
While a major of the 45th, MacQueen presented a specimen of a bustard species he had shot to the British Museum (Natural History) and in 1832 the bird was named for him as the MacQueen's Bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii, by J. E. Gray.
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