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Ostrich

When hunted the ostrich is said to run a certain distance and then thrust its head into a bush, thinking, because it cannot see, that it cannot be seen by the hunters. (See Crocodile.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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