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Identifier: dictionaryofbirdynewt (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of birds
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Newton, Alfred, 1829-1907 Gadow, Hans, 1855-1928, joint author 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: Boston College Libraries
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e older observa-tions, and to want either leisure or patience to make additionsthereto, their personal acquaintance with the bird not amounting tomore than such casual meetings with it as must inevitably fall tothe lot of those who traverse its haunts. Thus there are stillseveral dubious points in its natural history. On the other hand weunquestionaljly know far more than our predecessors respecting itsgeographical distribution, which has been traced with great minute-ness in the Vogel Ost-Afrikas of Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub, who havetherein given (pp. 597-607) the most comprehensive account of the OSTRICH 66- bird that is to be found in the literature of ornithology^ As aremany conspicuous forms, the Ostrich is disappearing before the per-secution of man, and this fact it is Avhich gives the advantage to oldertravellers, for there are several districts, some of wide extent, knownto have been frequented by the Ostrich within the present century. ^■:j^i^ » *, 7 It* ■■! ■-*.l^^
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vtV-Vvr- -^J^ especially towards the extremities of its African range—as on theborders of Egypt and the Cape Colony—in which it no longer occurs,while in Asia there is evidence, more or less trustworthy, of its ^ A good summary of it is contained in tlie Ostriches and Ostrich Farming ofMessrs. Do Mosenthal and Harting, from wliich the accompanying figure is, witlipermission, taken. Von Heuglin, in his Ornithologic Norclost-Afrikas (pp. 925-935), has given more particular details of the Ostrichs distribution in Africa. 664 OSTRICH former existence in most parts of the soutli-western desert-tracts,in few of which, it is now to be found. Xenophons notice of itsabundance in Assyria (Aiiahasis, i. 5) is well known. It probably-still lingers in the wastes of Kirwan in eastern Persia, whenceexamples may occasionally stray northward to those of Turkestan,^even near the Lower Oxus; but the assertion, often repeated, as toits former occurrence in Baloochistan or Sindh, though not incredible

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