OSTRICH. | NATURAL HISTORY, “923 
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. 
Cioven 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. 
