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the Great Bustard, this is very shy and crafty, and 

 if disturbed will fly for two or three hundred paces, 

 not far from the ground, and then run faster than 

 a man can follow on foot. 



A very fine female of this species is in the col- 

 lection of indigenous birds in the British Museum : 

 it was shot near Torrington in Devonshire, in the 

 winter of 1804, and was taken to Plymouth market, 

 where it was sold for a female Black Grous, but 

 fortunately it fell into the hands of William Pri- 

 deaux, Esq. who presented it to the late Colonel 

 Montagu, whose entire museum was purchased by 

 government to form a basis of a splendid collection 

 of British Zoology. 



