ON THE OSTRICHES. 227 
«• left . hy boa, birds at one time, each sittW in 
tuin and sometimes both birds at once 
treatmett l on 0f ""^ *** ^ this bM * the 
treatment of her yoiln g is not so weJ1 b 
their habits in this climate. y 
In the Book of Job femv 
aess. The description of the ostrich lifting herself un 1 
2 r ming the horse and his ^ ^zi: 
fully graphic picture of the attit„^» „f , 0naer - 
distarbed and driven from her nest Th *S ^ 
the enclosure in which the birds were kent th 
-tantaneousty attacked, and ^yS^JT 
the infuriated animals Th» ^ • v un ^en out by 
Pliny says of this bird that «;t ^ j ■ , 
man sitting on horseback a !d ^ " height a 
swiftness. They have ^ i T him in 
also employ them in seeing stones l & t^Z 
