92 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 one are attacked by 
thein. 
The Buftards feed upon grafs, grain, and all. 
forts of feeds, upon cabbage leaves, and the leaves 
of various plants, and upon worms and lugs. 
In the winter, when the ground is covered , 
with fnow, they eat the bark of trees, and they 
frequently fwallow gravel or fmall ftones, as 
Oftriches and Poultry often do. 
The Buftards build no neft, they only dig a 
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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