. Histoires sur les oiseaux de terre et d'eau . CHASSE À L'AUTRUCHE. Les ailes de l'oiseau continuent de travailler hke deux voiles, et il se met au-dessus de la Tound si vite qu'il serait bientôt hors de vue s'il courait dans une HNE droite. 190 HISTOIRES SUR LES OISEAUX. Mais il est tellement stupide de continuer à courir d'un côté à l'autre. Le chasseur, pendant ce temps, monte tout droit, et quand son cheval est frappé, un autre chasseur prend le jeu, et ainsi de suite, permettant à l'oiseau pauvre pas de repos.parfois, dans une forme de désespoir, il cache sa tête dans le sable. Et les autruches ont même été vus pour nager, un fait qui n'est pas généralement connu. ^h/r./:-^^^^ VI- T.

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. Stories about birds of land and water . OSTRICH HUNT. The wings of the bird keep working hke two sails, and he gets over theTound so fast that he would soon be out of sight if he ran in a straight Hne. 190 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. But he is so foolish as to keep running from one side to the other. Thehunter, meanwhile, rides straight on, and when his horse is knocked up, another hunter takes up the game, and so on, allowing the poor bird no rest.Sometimes, in a fit of despair, he hides his head in the sand. And ostriches have even been seen to swim, a fact not generally known.. ^h/r./:-^^^^ Vi- THE AMERICAN OSTRICH. One more thing we might tell you before wq bid good-bye to the ostrich. If he chances to live near a cultivated spot, he is not a very pleasantneighbour. He will go striding on his long legs into the fields of grain, andpick it all out, leaving nothing but the bare stalk. The farmer is very muchenraged, and goes out with his gun, to see if he can get a shot at him. Butthe ostrich is very cunning. He bends down his neck as he eats so that hecannot be seen, and generally contrives to get away in safety. THE EMU. 191 THE EMU. The ostrich has a very near relation, called the emu, that lives in NewSouth Wales. He is larger than the ostrich, and has three toes instead oftwo. But the toes, as in the ostrich, all point forward. He may be said to have no wings at all, for unless they are lifted up noone can see them, and they look more like rough hair than plumage. The colouris a dull brown, mottled with a dirty grey. On the head and neck thefeathers are

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