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Identifier: dictionaryofbird00newt (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of birds
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 Gadow, Hans, 1855- Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Roy, Charles S. (Charles Smart) Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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deed was 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 Werne (Uxped. zurEntdeck. der Quellen des Weissen Nil, p. 143) tells us was seen by his people,15th December 1840, while he was asleep, and they were unwilling to awakenhim. His countryman Baron F. W. von Miiller (Nauinannia, 1852, i. p. 85)was more fortunate, in that in 1848 he saw two, but was unable to procurethem. On his return to Khartoum he saw in a collection the t-wo specimensafterwards bought by Mr, Parkyns, for which a high price was asked. SHOE-BILL 839 the scowling expression of its eyes, and above all its wonderfulbill of Avhich enough has been already said. In 1860 two livingexamples were brought to England by Mr. Petherick, and exhibited
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Shoe-Bill. (After Wolf in Trans. Zool. Soc.) in the Zoological Gardens. He also discovered its mode of nidifi-cation, and obtained its eggs, which are white like those of Storks ;^but the fullest account of the bird is that given by Von Heuglin(Om. Nordost-Afrikas, pp. 1095-1099). 1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 196-199 ; and Egypf, the Soudan, &e. pp. 365,475-478 (London: 1861). 840 SHOO IS HO VELER

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