. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ffe^led was found a great Quan-tity of Hemlock Seed, with three or four Grains of Barley, and that inHarveft time; they are found on Newmarket and Royjlon Heaths inCamhrtdgJJdire and Suffolk-, and elfevv^here in Waftes and Plains: Theyare of flow flight, and when they are upon the Ground can hardly raifethemfelves from it, by reafon of the Bulk and Weight of their Bodies,from whence without doubt they got the Latin name Tarda. Dr. Douglas has obferved in the Male two Stomachs, on
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . ffe^led was found a great Quan-tity of Hemlock Seed, with three or four Grains of Barley, and that inHarveft time; they are found on Newmarket and Royjlon Heaths inCamhrtdgJJdire and Suffolk-, and elfevv^here in Waftes and Plains: Theyare of flow flight, and when they are upon the Ground can hardly raifethemfelves from it, by reafon of the Bulk and Weight of their Bodies,from whence without doubt they got the Latin name Tarda. Dr. Douglas has obferved in the Male two Stomachs, one for the Foodand the other a Refervatory for Water to fupply them, they feeding oadry Heaths remote from Ponds and Rivers: Some fay one may catchthem with ones Hands before they can compofe themfelves to fly; butthis is a Miftake: for though it be long before they can raife themfelvesfrom the Earth, yet are they very timorous and circumfpedt, and willnot fuffer a Man to come within a Furlong of them, before they takeWing and fly away; yet our Fowlers report that they may be run downwith Greyhounds. The « 3^-. OU) J-iLC- Tart^a. autd ^^6 39
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