152 The Little Bustard 
It is interesting to note that I found these cunning birds, 
although wild round Tangier, much more approachable three or 
four days’ journey south of that district, sometimes rising within 
shot. No doubt this is due to their being much less molested in 
that wild country. 
Few nests are more difficult to find than are Little Bustards’, 
NEST AND EGGS OF LITTLE BUSTARD. 
especially when they are amid the rank herbage on the fallow lands 
or the asphodel, when they are as well concealed as a Partridge’s or 
Quail’s. They are almost equally baffling when on the plains among 
the thousands of acres of waving reeds, 2 ft. or 3 ft. in height, which 
permit of the old bird running for an indefinite distance from the 
nest before taking wing. The same remark applies to those placed 
amongst the standing corn. 
The nest varies much in its size and construction, being at 
