. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. pounds. Theneck a foot long ; the legs a foot and a half. It flieswith some little difficulty. The head and neck of thecock ash-coloured ; the back barred transversely withblack and bright rust colour. The greater quill fea-thers black, the belly white; the tail, consisting oftwenty feathers, marked with broad black bars: it hasthree thick toes befo
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. pounds. Theneck a foot long ; the legs a foot and a half. It flieswith some little difficulty. The head and neck of thecock ash-coloured ; the back barred transversely withblack and bright rust colour. The greater quill fea-thers black, the belly white; the tail, consisting oftwenty feathers, marked with broad black bars: it hasthree thick toes before, and none behind. 7 -. Three species of bustard are found in England; thatcalled the little bustard O. tctrax) differs chiefly in size, notbeing larger than a pheasant. Bustards were known to the in Africa, and in Greece and Syria ; are supposed to liveabout fifteen years; are gregarious, and pair in spring, layingonly two eggs, nearly of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olivebrown, mark) d with spots of a darker hue. They sit about fiveweeks, and the young ones run, like partridges, as soon as deli-vered from the shell I he cocks will fight until one is killed oifalls. Their flesh has ever been held most delicious: they are. Book VII. BIRDS OF LUXURY. I095 fed upon the same food as the turkey. There were formerly great flocks of bustards in this countryupon the wastes and in the wolds, particularly in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Dorset, and in variousparts of Scotland, where they were hunted with greyhounds, and were easily taken. Burton was in his supposition that these birds are incapable of being propagated in the domestic state, chieflyon account of the difficulty of providing them with proper food, which, in their wild state, he describes tobe heath-berries and large earth-worms. Probably the haw or whitethorn berry might succeed equallywell. To those who aim at variety and novelty in this line, the bustard appears peculiarly an object forpropag
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