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 CHAPTER VI. 



GAME BIRDS. 



\Vhat arms to use, or nets to frame, 

 Wild birds to combat, or to tame, 

 With all the myst'ries of the yarne." 



THE GREAT BUSTARD. 



I regret that we cannot claim this noble bird as a native, there 

 being no record of its having been shot in Ireland. It is the 

 largest of the British game birds, sometimes weighing thirty 

 pounds, and is about four feet long. It approaches to the galina- 

 ceous tribe, and has points resembling the ostrich and cassowary. 



