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Identifier: dictionaryofbird00newt (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of birds
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 Gadow, Hans, 1855- Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Roy, Charles S. (Charles Smart) Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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mightshelter a foe, and in the former the introduction of improvedagricultural implements, notably the corn-drill and the horse-hoe,led to the discovery and generally the destruction of every nest,for the birds chosen breeding-place was in wide fields—brecks,as they are locally called,—of winter-corn. Since the extirpationof the native race the Bustard is known to Great Britain only byoccasional wanderers, straying most likely from the open countryof Champagne or Saxony, and occurring in one part or anotherof the United Kingdom some two or three times every three orfour years, and chiefly in midwinter. An adult male M-ill measure nearly four feet from the tip ofthe bill to the end of the tail, and its wings have an expanse of ^ It may be open to doubt wbetber tardaia here an adjective. Several of themedieeval naturalists used it as a substantive. BUSTARD 63 eight feet or more—its weight varying (possibly through age)from 22 to 32 pounds. This last was that of one which occurred
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Cock Bustard. (After Wolf.) to the younger Naumann, the best biographer of the bird (VogelBeutschlands, vii. pp. 12-51), who, however, stated in 1834 that

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