. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. xxviti BEAKS 339 which has a beak like a nut-cracker, for the niaiulilik's cannot lie closed in the middle, lives on frogs and fishes, but its favourite food consists of fresh-water molluscs, especially AmpuUdvia, the shells of wdiich it can crush with this powerful beak. (_)n account of its cleverness in this direction it has been called the "; Tlie shafts of the feathers on the fore-neck an<l lower parts of the Op
. Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : From observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan . Natural history; Indigenous peoples; Ethnology. xxviti BEAKS 339 which has a beak like a nut-cracker, for the niaiulilik's cannot lie closed in the middle, lives on frogs and fishes, but its favourite food consists of fresh-water molluscs, especially AmpuUdvia, the shells of wdiich it can crush with this powerful beak. (_)n account of its cleverness in this direction it has been called the "; Tlie shafts of the feathers on the fore-neck an<l lower parts of the Open-bill expand in the adult bird into flat, shining, horn-like plates at the tip. This terminal expanded portion is also jjartly twisted on its axis. These l)irds breed in society at certain localities among the reeds. The places are known to tlie chiefs, who, at particular times of the year, gather most of the young. The chicks are very fat, and when roasted are esteemed one of the dainties of the Barotse Valley (Living- stone). All educated men and women 1 • •, ,1 -KT-i TT 11 j_ 1 J^"^ shell of Ampu/laria, the who Visit the JNile Valley take favourite food of the Opcn-bm. keen interest in the Sacred Ibis. This bird was regarded with great veneration l:)y the ancient Egyptians. (3rnithologists are satisfied that Ihi.'i (ethiopicus is identical with the sacred ibis of the Egyptians : in the form of Toth they deified this l)ird, and its body was often mummified (Ibis mummies). The adult bird has a bare l:)lack head which earned for it the name of Chimney Sweeper from the Dutch in South Africa. Young birds have the head covered with short feathers, and the head becomes bald about the second or third year. The bill is long, strong, and curved downwards like that of the curlew ; its chief peculiarity is a longitudinal groove on each side, leading from the nostrils at the base to near its tip. z 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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