. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. 129.—Adjutant. is met with on the shores of the Black Sea and Senegal; and, finally,the Tantalus, which lives in the warm regions of both the New andOld World. Whoever has once set eyes on the Boatbill {^Cancroma cochlearia,Fig. 131) will never forget the bird, or confound it with any other. 332 REPTILES AND BIRDS. What, it will be asked, is there so characteristic about it ? Nothingelse but its bill, which certainly is the most singular implement onecan
. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. 129.—Adjutant. is met with on the shores of the Black Sea and Senegal; and, finally,the Tantalus, which lives in the warm regions of both the New andOld World. Whoever has once set eyes on the Boatbill {^Cancroma cochlearia,Fig. 131) will never forget the bird, or confound it with any other. 332 REPTILES AND BIRDS. What, it will be asked, is there so characteristic about it ? Nothingelse but its bill, which certainly is the most singular implement onecan well imagine. Fancy two long and wide spoons, with their.
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