BRITISH BIRDS. 
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bits of metal, and the like. The female makes 
no neft, but, making a hole on the ground, ftie 
drops two eggs, about the fize of thofe of a Goofe, 
of a pale olive brown, with dark fpots : She fome- 
times leaves her eggs in quell of food ; and if du- 
ring her abfence, any one fhould handle, or even 
breathe upon them, Ihe immediately abandons her 
neft. Bullards are found in various parts of Eu- 
rope, Afia, and Africa, but have not hitherto been 
difcovered on the new continent. 
