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The female fometimes leaves her eggs in 
fearch of food: it is faid, that if any perfon in: 
her abfence fhould breathe upon the eggs, fhe. 
immediately forfakes them. 
Buftards, though very large, are very fearful ; 
they are efpecially afraid of dogs: and this cow=; 
ardice is fo great, that if they are flightly hurt, , 
they die of fear: when they are angry, they: 
{well out a piece of loofe fkin which is eneer 
their. neck, 
When the Buftard is purfued, it runs very | 
faft and flaps its wings, and goes® feveral miles. 
in this manner without ftopping: but as it rifes > 
from the ground with great difficulty, and cane - 
not perch upon trees, (perhaps. for want of a 
back toe) it is fometimes caught by greyhounds. : 
and other dogs. 
_Buftards are.often taken by means. of . Poke: 
and birds of. prey, or.caught in nets: They. 
are faid to be fo fond of horfes, that by means 
of a horfe they may be brought almoft any 
where, or by. means of. a-man-covered with a 
| horfe’. s (kin... 
Elien fays, that in the kingdom of ‘Pontus, 
Which is now in Turkey in Afia, the foxes de- 
- eive the Buftards, by lying clofe to the ground 
: and raifing their tails, and moving them like the. 
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