NATURAL HISTORY. 
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clecreafe of the fpecies. Another circuraftance, 
equally unfavourable to this bird, is its ama- 
zing file, which renders it fo unwieldy and 
flow in flight, as to render it almofl impoflible 
to efcape the aim of the fportfman. 
Bullards are principally found on Salifbury 
Plains, Newmarket and Royfton Heaths, 
Darfetfliire Uplands, and thole of Marfli or 
Lothian, in Scotland. They run very tall ; 
and, although flow in flight, will, when on 
the wing, continue their progrefs, without 
relllng for feveral miles. It is with fuch dif- 
ficulty they take flight, that they are fre- 
quently run down by grey hounds. T-hey 
feddom v/ander above twenty or thirty miles 
from their haunts. They live on berries, 
which grow on the heaths, and on earth- 
worms, that are found on the downs before 
the fun rifes. 
As a fecurity againll drought, nature has 
' furniftied the male with a pouch, that will 
contain near leven quarts of water, with 
which, it is luppofed, they accommodate and 
fupply the female while fitting, or the young, 
until they can fly. 
It lives about fifteen years, but cannot be 
domellicatcd from the want of a fufficient 
fupply of the food wdiich they delight in, 
which they can only obtain in their natural 
ftatc. 
There are two other fpecies ^^his bird, 
which are called the Indian bultard and little 
buftarcl. 
BIRDS 
