ye «THE NATURAL HISTORY 
_Juft Bele the tongue, in the male, is a pouch 
__ that can contain feven, pints of water, for ine tay 
feven quarts. 
The Buftard: fil ls ae and keeps it in in ftore, , 
“to ufe as he has occafion; fometimes per= 
haps for his young, for Buftards frequent. dry 
pe 
fituations. Sometimes too they fpirt out this - 
water upon Hawks, ie they, are attacked by 
. es 
The Buftards feed upon “orate, grain, ie all 
. forts of feeds, upon cabbage leaves, and the leaves 
_ of various plants, and upon worms. and flugs, — 
In the winter, when the ground is covered 
with fnow, they eat the bark of trees, and they. 
frequently Swallow gravel. or {mall flones, as 
* Oftriches and Poultry often do. 
‘The Buftards build no neft, they only dig. a 
_ Jittle hole in the ground, and lay two eggs: they — 
fit thirty days. It is faid, when they fufpeét 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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