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94 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
néck of a bird; that the Buftards miftake them 
for birds of their own kind, and go towards them, 
and fo are caught. 
The foxes in Pontus muft be very cunning, or 
the Buftards very filly; or, what is more likely, 
the perfon who told this ftory muft have been very 
credulous ; that is to fay, difpofed to believe what 
is very unlikely to be true. 
Sometimes Buftards go in flocks. of forty or 
fifty, and do a great deal - mifchief in the turnip 
fields. 
They are found in cae Afia, and Africa, 
but not-in America. 
A Gentleman’s Servant in. France, one morn- 
ing, when the country was covered with fnow, 
_ found thirty Buftards half frozen. | 
The Buftard is very nice food. “The fat is faid 
‘to make a very ufeful ointment. The quills are. 
_ufed for writing, like the quills of Swans and 
‘Geefe, and fifhermen ufe them for floats to their 
fifhing-lines: they fancy that the fith imagine 
“the little black fpots, upon the quills, to be-fo. 
many flies, which brings them in numbers about 
the line. 
There is a Buftard found in Arabia, called the 
~ Arabian Buftard, seca the fize of the Great 
: Buftardy 

