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32 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Juft below the tongue, in the male, is a pouch 
that can contain feven pints of water, fome fay 
feven quarts. 
The Buftard fills this, and keeps it in ftore, 
to ufe as he has occafion; fometimes per- 
haps for his young, for Buftards frequent dry 
fituations. Sometimes too they fpirt out this 
water upon Hawks, when they are attacked by 
them. | : | 
The Buftards feed upon grafs, grain, and all 
forts of feeds, upon cabbage leaves, and the leaves 
of various plants, and upon worms and flugs. 
In the winter, when the ground is covered, 
with {now, they eat the bark of trees, and they 
frequently fwallow. gravel or fimall ftones, as 
~~ Oftriches and Poultry often do. 
The Buftards build no neft, they only dig 2 
little hole in the ground, and lay two eggs: they 
fit thirty days. Itis faid, when they fufpect that 
« their neft is difcovered, they carry away the eggs 
under their wings, but. this is not very likely. 
They generally lay their eggs among corn, that 
the young may be near their food; and they 
prefer laying among oats, becaufe oats do not 
grow fo high as to prevent their feeing to fome 
diftance all round them. 
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