. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 296 VEETEBRATES. raged by the Dutch to build in their towns. Among the ruins of J*ersepolis they are very common, scarcely one pillar being without a stork's nest at the summit. In Holland a kind of false chimney is built by the inhabitants for these birds to make their nests in. When the Stork cannot find a building on which to make its nest, it chooses the flat spreading branches of a cedar orpine, ani there collects
. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. 296 VEETEBRATES. raged by the Dutch to build in their towns. Among the ruins of J*ersepolis they are very common, scarcely one pillar being without a stork's nest at the summit. In Holland a kind of false chimney is built by the inhabitants for these birds to make their nests in. When the Stork cannot find a building on which to make its nest, it chooses the flat spreading branches of a cedar orpine, ani there collects a large mass of sticks and twigs, on which it lajs from three to five whitish eggs. When disturbed, the birds make a great clattering with their bills. The draining of the morasses seems to have driven the Stork completely out of England, where it was formerly tolerably common. The food of this bird consists of rats, mice, frogs, etc. The Adjutant.— This very remarkable bird is a native of various parts of India, and must not be confounded with the Marabou, which belongs to the same genus, but lives in the African tropics. 15. The Adjutant is one of the largest birds in the world, standing five feet in height, and measuring seven feet and a half from the tip of the bill to the claws,v while its expanse of wing is rather above fourteen feet. On the front of the breast there hangs a pouch of skin, into which the bird sometimes ap- pears to withdraw its neck altogether, looking on such occasions as if it had no neck at all. Its bill, as will be seen from the cut, is eni,r. mously large, and capable of receiving prey of considerable magnitude, inasmuch as in the crop of one of these birds were found a land tortoise, ten inches in length, and a large male black cat, which the Adjutant had snapped up entire. It has also been known to swallow entire a small leg of mutton, a hare, and a small fox, so that there is no reason to complain that it does not make use of the " terrors
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