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ge? TUS NATURAL HISTORY 
neck of a ree that the Buftards miftake ale Z 
for' birds of their own kind, and g0 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 eis what 
18 wery uslikely to be true. 
Sometimes Buftards go in flocks of forty or 3 
aifty, and do a great deal of mifchief in the turnip 
fields, 
They are found in Europe, Afia, and 5 Aikiel, 
but not in America. | : 
A Gentleman’s Servant in F. rance,. one morn-_ 
ing, when the country was covered with waned 
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 fifh imagine ' 
the little -black f{pots, upon the quills, to be fo 
-* many flies, which brings them in apne a about 
the line. 
: There is a Buftard found in Arabia, called the : 
Arabian Buftard, about, the lize of the Great 
| ie | Buftard, 
