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eight feet or more— its weight varying (possibly through age) 

 from 22 to 32 pounds. This last was that of one which occurred 





Cock Bustard. (After Wolf.) 



to the younger Naumann, the best biographer of the bird (Vogel 

 Beutschlands, vii. pp. 12-51), who, however, stated in 1834 that 



Cock Bustard. (After Wolf.) 



he was assured of the former existence of examples which 

 had weighed from 35 to 38 pounds. The female is considerably 

 smaller. Compared with most other birds frequenting open places 



