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]y of tlie size of a goose egg, of a f^ic 

 oiive brown, marked with spots of a darker 

 hue. They sit about five weeks, and the 

 young ones run like partridges, as soon as 

 delivered from the shell. The cocks vvilj 

 fight until one is killed or falls. Their 

 flesh has ever been held most dehcious, and 

 I suppose they are fed upon the same food 

 as the turkey. 



There \vere formerly great flocks of bus- 

 tards in this country, upon the wastes aiid 

 in the woods, particularly in Norfolk, Cani- 

 bridgeshire and Dorset, and in various parts 

 of Scotland, where they were hunted 

 Vvith greyhounds, and very easily taken. 

 Butibn was mistaken . in his supposition 

 that these birds are incapable of being 

 propagated in the domestic state, chiefly on 

 account of the difficulty of providing them 

 with proper food, which, in their wild state, 

 he describes to be heath berries and large 

 earth worms. Probablv the haw or white- 

 thorn berry might succeed equally well. 

 Mr. Castang informs me that a person in 

 Norfolk has at this time some bustards : 



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