. Birds of the Bible . )lendor, and majesty of the great sea, and all the in-land water that they also inhabited in Bible times. Thenthey dropped from their high estate, and perching,gorged, and sleepy, their big l)ills pressing their breastsin dejcctid attitude, tlicv became biids of diet and habits placed tluUi among the creaturespiohibited for food; and this unj)repossessing attitude,and their coarse, rough, grunting voices, went fur-. X^il ji TIIK PKLIC AX ri7_ ther and classed thcin with the hirds used to })irc terrorand repulsion in ])eople who were bein<^ warned
. Birds of the Bible . )lendor, and majesty of the great sea, and all the in-land water that they also inhabited in Bible times. Thenthey dropped from their high estate, and perching,gorged, and sleepy, their big l)ills pressing their breastsin dejcctid attitude, tlicv became biids of diet and habits placed tluUi among the creaturespiohibited for food; and this unj)repossessing attitude,and their coarse, rough, grunting voices, went fur-. X^il ji TIIK PKLIC AX ri7_ ther and classed thcin with the hirds used to })irc terrorand repulsion in ])eople who were bein<^ warned of thedevastation that followed evil livino-. The white jjelienn had yellow tints on the top of thehead and neck, and the tij) of the beak was red. Itstood five feet in hei<2;ht, and had a wide wing-sweej). Thebeak was very lon<;. the u})per mandible having- a sharptip curving over the lower. Under the lower mandible,and cxtendint* down the throat, was a large pouch inwhich the bird collected the fish for its food and to carryto its nest. The capacity of this j)ouch was so great thatthe pelican could load it with fresh fish mitil unable tofly with the weight, and so it took its name from its])ower to eject this burden when it wished to fly in fear. The white birds were pictures of the morning andevening sky. When the sun peeped over the Lebanonranges, topped Gilead, and day dawned in the brilliantsplendor of Palestine, these big Avhite birds
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