. Foot of Bittern—one fourth natural size. or even like the Stork, it would sink, and become inex- tricably bog-foundered in haunts to which it trusts for safety; but by means of the long claws which stretch out from its spreading toes, it is enabled to tread securely on the floating platform of reeds and rushes.

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