GREAT BUSTARD. 
The Great Bustard is found on the eonti- 
nent of Europe and in Africa. It runs with 
great swiftness, and will never rise on the 
wing until forced, so that instances have 
been known of Bustards being captured 
by greyhounds. It is exceedingly wary, 
and can hardly be approached within 
gun-shot, except by adopting some dis- 
guise, as a laborer with the gun in his 
wheelbarrow, or by driving a cart or a 
carriage by the spot where it is feeding. 
The male Bustard possesses a membra- 
nous pouch on the fore part of the neck, 
capable of holding six or seven pints of 
