. A dictionary of birds . as never in the country it inhabits. His specimens,according to Von Heuglin {ut infra), were bought of a slave-dealer in Khartoum,whither they had been brought. It is reasonably supposed that to this speciesbelonged the extraordinary bird, as big as a young Camel, with a bill like aPelicans, though wanting a pouch, which Ferdinand Wcrne [Expcd. zurEntdcck. dcr Qaellcn des Weissen Nil, p. 143) tells us was seen by his peojile,15tli December 1840, while he was asleeji, and they were unwilling to awakenhim. His countryman Baron F. W. von Miiller {Naumannia, 1852, i. ]i.
. A dictionary of birds . as never in the country it inhabits. His specimens,according to Von Heuglin {ut infra), were bought of a slave-dealer in Khartoum,whither they had been brought. It is reasonably supposed that to this speciesbelonged the extraordinary bird, as big as a young Camel, with a bill like aPelicans, though wanting a pouch, which Ferdinand Wcrne [Expcd. zurEntdcck. dcr Qaellcn des Weissen Nil, p. 143) tells us was seen by his peojile,15tli December 1840, while he was asleeji, and they were unwilling to awakenhim. His countryman Baron F. W. von Miiller {Naumannia, 1852, i. ]i. 85)was more fortunate, in that in 1848 he saw two, but was unable to procurethem. On his return to Kliartoum he saw in a collection tie two specimensafterwards bought by Mr. Iark3nis, for wliich a high jiricc was asked. SHOE-BILL S39 the scowling expression of its eyes, and above all its wonderfulIjill of which enongh has been already said. In 1860 two livingexamples were brought to England by Mr. Petherick, and exhibited. Shoe-Bill. (After Wolf in Trans. Zool. Soc.) in the Zoological Gardens. He also discovered its mode of nidifi-cation, and obtained its eggs, Mdiich are white like those of Storks ;^blit the fullest account of the bird is that given by Von Heuglin(Oni. Nonlost-AfnlaCs, pp. 1095-1099). ^ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 196-199 ; and Ejijpf, the Soudcai, &c. pp. 365,475-478 (Loudon: 18611. 840 SHOOT—SHO VELER
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