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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 Busrarp. (After Wolf.) 
to the younger Naumann, the best biographer of the bird (Vdgel 
Deutschlands, vu. pp. 12-51), who, however, stated in 1834 that 
Cock Bustarp. (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 
