. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. WHITE STOKK. Milt VKOUSTOKiiS. VULTUMINK FOWL. Abu Sein, as the Adju- ^j,g tant Stork Marabou (Leptoptilusstork. /-( ?/? V Grumenijerus) is called by the nativeson account of thependulous pouch orwind bag which hangsfrom the root of theenormous bill of thisgrotesque among birds,made quite a little sideshow with his mateand drew a big audienceduring the one or twosummer days we were permitted to have thisyear. Following the common storks as occu-piers of their lately quitted enclosure, thecomical marabous began their
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. WHITE STOKK. Milt VKOUSTOKiiS. VULTUMINK FOWL. Abu Sein, as the Adju- ^j,g tant Stork Marabou (Leptoptilusstork. /-( ?/? V Grumenijerus) is called by the nativeson account of thependulous pouch orwind bag which hangsfrom the root of theenormous bill of thisgrotesque among birds,made quite a little sideshow with his mateand drew a big audienceduring the one or twosummer days we were permitted to have thisyear. Following the common storks as occu-piers of their lately quitted enclosure, thecomical marabous began their version of nestbuilding by posing themselves in a series of themost amusing tableau vivants, remaining asimmovable as the leopards spots for severalminutes, causing one little girl to ask: Arethose birds really alive ? This very beautiful game bird resembles the vulture in the appearance and Vulturine ^ g^ape of the head, but in habits would be classed with the pheasant tribe, and is a native of Eastern and possibly Western Africa. The beautiful. cobalt blue ne
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