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wheat, a few dried stalks may by chance be pressed down and 
form a sort of apology for a nest, but this seems to be a mere matter 
of chance. 
NEST OF GREAT BUSTARD IN BEAN-FIELD. 
How any Bustards’ nests escape being robbed is a wonder to 
me. It is the custom in Spain for the farm labourers to form long 
