. Birds of La Plata . ( 1 BLACK-FACED IBIS lai They walk rapidly, stooping very much, and probingthe ground with their long, slender, curved beaks,and appear to subsist principally on the larvae of thelarge homed beetle, with which their stomachs areusually found filled. So intent are they on seekingtheir food that the members of a flock often scatterin all directions and wander quite out of sight ofeach other; when this happens they occasionallyutter loud vehement cries, as if to call their com-panions, or to inform each other of their one is seen to lift up its wings a
. Birds of La Plata . ( 1 BLACK-FACED IBIS lai They walk rapidly, stooping very much, and probingthe ground with their long, slender, curved beaks,and appear to subsist principally on the larvae of thelarge homed beetle, with which their stomachs areusually found filled. So intent are they on seekingtheir food that the members of a flock often scatterin all directions and wander quite out of sight ofeach other; when this happens they occasionallyutter loud vehement cries, as if to call their com-panions, or to inform each other of their one is seen to lift up its wings as if tofly, and, stretching them up vertically, to remainfor fifteen or twenty seconds in this curious sunset they all rise up clamouring and direct theirflight to the nearest watercourse, and often on theirway thither go through a strange and interestingperformance. The flock suddenly precipitates itselfdownwards with a violence wonderful to see, eachbird rushing this way and that as if striving to outvie
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