GREAT BUSTARDS. numbers. By good care and feeding, the farmers wife hoped the birdswould lay eggs, and rear the broods, but this was not the case. For the last half century scarce a bustard has been seen, and every timesuch has been the case, the fact has been recorded with interest THE BUSTARD.… … THE LITTLIi BUSTAKD. a flock of bustards rise before his gun, in a sudden manner, out of a gravelpit ; and it was even reported that the bustard had been known to attackz. man on horseback at night. M 2 196 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. Once a solitary bustard haunted a turnip-field in Cornwall, and…
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