Children's own library . the in-habitants do not trouble themselves by removing car-rion or offal, but leave that office to the vultures,hyenas, and other scavengers of nature. The height ofthe Stork is nearly four feet. The African Adjutant, sometimes called the Mara-bou, has a large pouch on the front of the throat,which perhaps does duty for a crop. The body islarge, the neck and head are without feathers, the beakis very large and strong, the legs are of great plumage is rough and untidy, dark on the back,white on the front, while the tail supplies the maraboufeathers. The bird
Children's own library . the in-habitants do not trouble themselves by removing car-rion or offal, but leave that office to the vultures,hyenas, and other scavengers of nature. The height ofthe Stork is nearly four feet. The African Adjutant, sometimes called the Mara-bou, has a large pouch on the front of the throat,which perhaps does duty for a crop. The body islarge, the neck and head are without feathers, the beakis very large and strong, the legs are of great plumage is rough and untidy, dark on the back,white on the front, while the tail supplies the maraboufeathers. The bird walks in a very stately, solemnmanner as if every step was measured, and from thishabit derives its English military title of Adjutant,while the Germans call it the Senator or the DresscoatBird. It is very common in the Soudan, and a similarspecies is found in India. The Sacred Ibis inhabits Egypt, but does not seemto breed there. It is a migratory bird, appearingsimultaneously with the vise of the Nile, and departing AW. NIGHT HERON AND BOATBILL, 178 woods natural history as the inundation subsides. It is about the size of anordinary fowl. The Curlew is spread over the whole of the OldWorld, from South Africa to the polar regions. In
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