OSTRICH.] 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



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sun, and heateth the eggs that be hid, and breedeth birds 

 therein, and bringeth them forth ; and when the shell is 

 broken, and birds come out, then first the mother gathereth 

 and nourisheth them, and the bird that she despised in 

 the egg, she knoweth when it is come out of the egg. 

 Also the Ostrich hateth the horse by kind, and is so 

 contrary to the horse, that he may not see the horse 

 without fear. And if an horse come against him, he raiseth 

 up his wings as it were against his enemy, and compelleth 

 the horse to flee with beating of his wings. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xii. 33. 





CLOVEN hoofs they have like red deer, and with them 

 they fight, for good they be to catch up stones withal,, and 

 with their legs they whirl them back as they run away 

 against those that chase them. But the veriest fools they 

 be of all others ; for as high as the rest of their body is, 

 yet if they thrust their head and neck once into any shrub 

 or bush, and get it hidden, they think then they are safe 

 enough, and that no man seeth them. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. i. 



