. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. has several times madeits nest and reared its young (which are clothedwith mottled down when hatched) in the aviariesat the Zoo. Until the late Mr. Bartlett detectedin the Kagu bird an affinity to the Sun Bittern(Eurypyga lielias), the latter bird was thought tohave no close ally. Strange, indeed, is the follow-ing weird and remarkable account given of thisbird in an old natural history book : I wasinterested in an account I heard the other day of a bird, a species of heron It is called the Bittern; but what is very extraord
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. has several times madeits nest and reared its young (which are clothedwith mottled down when hatched) in the aviariesat the Zoo. Until the late Mr. Bartlett detectedin the Kagu bird an affinity to the Sun Bittern(Eurypyga lielias), the latter bird was thought tohave no close ally. Strange, indeed, is the follow-ing weird and remarkable account given of thisbird in an old natural history book : I wasinterested in an account I heard the other day of a bird, a species of heron It is called the Bittern; but what is very extraordinary, ithas the power of emitting alight from its breast equal tothe light of a common torch,which illuminates the water, soas to enable it to discover its prey I had a difficulty in believing the fact, and tooksome trouble to ascertain thetruth, which has been con-firmed to me by several gentle-men of undoubted veracity,and especially by Mr. FranklinPeale. If any of our readerscan add to this testimony itwill be very interesting. ,^!pai»f-^ THE MANY-ZONED sUiN Zoo Notes 335 One of the most beautiful hawks ever de-posited in the Zoo was to be^Hawk.^ seen in the aviary nearest thesouth entrance. It is a nativeof Morocco, and is named the Many-ZonedHawk {Melieraxpolyzonus). It is very closelyallied to the South African whistling hawk,but differs from all other species by its sableplumage, the general colour of the upper partsbeing pearly-grey, the chest ashy-grey, and
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