﻿BUSTARD, 803 



vedly ftamp a characteriftic name on the bird, and cannot be 

 taken for a creft, as Buffon * feems to think : indeed Linnaus 

 calls the colour of the crown, and upper parts, cinereous, 

 omitting the mention of any mottlings, yet leaves traces fully 

 fufficient to afcertain that he means the bird here defcribed, and 

 no other. 



Thefe are met with at the .Cape of Good Hope; and a pair of ^ ACE AN * 

 them are now in the poflefllon of Sir Jofeph Banks. I have alfo 

 feen the male in the collection of Charles Boddam, Efq. Mr. 

 Majfon met with them in plenty in his botanical travels inland, 

 about feventeen days journey from the Gape -j\ In thefe parts 

 they are known by the name of Korhaan. Kolben calls them 

 Knor-cock, and the female Knor-hen ; and fays, that they ferve as 

 gentries to the other birds, for as foon as they difcover a man, 

 they make a loud noife, like the word crach, which they repeat 

 very clamoroufly, to the frequent difappointment of the fportf- 

 man. Thefe birds frequent heaths, and places remote from ha- 

 bitations : "they build their nefts in bufhes, but never lay above 

 " two eggs in a feafon. The flefh is of an agreeable tafte, but 

 " not fo fine as that of mod tame birds. They are moftly {hot 

 " only becaufe they warn the other birds, by the noife they 

 " make, to get out of the way." 



Brijfon thinks this bird to be the Guinea Fowl; but there is. 



* Cette huppe eft fans doute ce qUe M. Linnaus appelle les Oreilles. — Hiji. 

 des oif. vol. ii. p. 55. 



f In Verkeerde Valley * c the fields abounded with Korhaans, a kind of Buf- 

 " lard,'*— Phil. Trtcnf. veil. lxvi. p. 317. 



5 K 1 nothing 



