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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: 
fwell out a piece of loofe fkin which is aise 
their neck. | 
When the Buftard is purfued, it runs very. 
fat and flaps its wings, and goes feveral miles : 
in this manner without {topping : 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 . Pyles: : 
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 ao 2 a-man-covered with a. 
horfe’s fkin... 
Elien fays, that in the kingdom of Pontus, _ 

ceive the Buftards, by lying clofe to the ground 
: and raifing their tails, and moving them like the. 
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which is now in Turkey in Afra, the foxes de- 
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