
. GF cz t ee 
 -Buftard. The buck part of the head i is  crefted e 
i a and black. | 
The eit Buftard | is foutid j in feveral ae of 
| ee but particularly in France. ‘The head and : | 
throat have no tufts of feathers, even in the male ; = 
e 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. 
oe they often make a noife in the night, which i i 
heard toa great diftance. - | 














| ~The female lays in the month of June from: 
_ three to five eggs; they are of a glofly green co- 
dour. As foon as the young are hatched they 
follow their. mother, as chickens: follow a hens. 
and on. the leaft alarm they fquat clofe to the 
ground,’ They feed on. infects, vegetables, and: 
' ah | | = 
. They are very cautious and ° Setici dls 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 fait, that a man : 
can. Acarcely. overtake them. | 
