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BUSTAED SHOOTING. 



doubloons in its stomach." If the English bustards 

 were in the habit of carrying so much money about 

 them, there can be no difficulty in accounting for 

 their present scarcity. 



THE BCTSTAED. 



The Great Bustard (Otis Tarda);of the family 

 of the Struthionidae, or Ostriches. We must speak 

 of this, our largest land bird, rather in the past than 

 in the present tense. This is one of the birds that 



