OFSELBORNE. 8^ 
grey moffy flints, which much refemble their young In colour ; 
among which they ikulk and conceal themfelves. They 
" make no neft, but lay their eggs on the bare ground, 
producing in common but two at a time. There is reafon to 
" think their young run foon after they are hatched ; and that 
" the old ones do not feed them, but only lead them about at 
" the time of feeding, which, for the moll part, is in the night." 
Thus far my friend. 
In the manners of this bird you fee there is fomething very 
analogous to the buftard, whom it alfo fomewhat refembles in 
afpeft and make, and in the ftrudure of it's feet. 
For a long time I have defired my relation to look out for 
thefe birds in Andalufia ; and now he writes me word that, for the 
firfl time, he faw one dead in the market on the third of September. 
When the o^-^/V^^;?^ flies it ftretches out it's legs ftraight behind, 
like an heron. I am &c. 
LETTER XXXIV. 
TO THE SAME. 
D E A R S I R, Selborne, Maich 30, 1771. 
T. HERE is an infe(5l with us, efpecially on chalky diflrifts, which 
is very troublefome and teafing all the latter end of the fummer, 
getting into people's fl<.ins, efpecially thofe of women and children, 
N and 
