Oricy WR p vs. 95. 
Buftard. The back part of the head is crefted. 
and black. 
The Leller Buftard is found in feveral parts of 
Europe, but particularly in France.. The head and. 
throat have no tufts of feathers, even in the male ; 
the neck is. black, with two white bands. It is. 
only about the fize of a Pheafant. The male Buf- 
tards are very quarrelfome. with one another, and: 
they often make a noife in the night, which is: 
heard to a great diftance. 
“The female lays in the month of June from: 
_ three to five eggs; they are of a gloffy green co-. 
lour. As foon as the young are hatched they 
follow their mother, as chickens follow a hen ;.- 
_ and on the leaft alarm they fquat clofe to the 
| een. “They feed on infects, vegetables, and:: 
en 
“They are very ¢ cautious and fufpicious, for they: 
are not eafily taken in traps.. Upon the leaft 
; alarm they rife, and: fly very. heavily for about. 
- three hundred yards, very near the ground: then, . 
as foon as they alight, they run fo faft, that a man’ 
can fearcely overtake poe 
B6é GENUS 


