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Identifier: birdsofotherland00corn (find matches)
Title: Birds of other lands, reptiles, fishes, jointed animals and lower forms;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Cornish, C. J. (Charles John), 1858-1906
Subjects: Zoology Birds Reptiles Fishes
Publisher: New York, University Society
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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u f.^-*?*** P*«fo ir Mr. alivdj,) --*^*. AN OSTRICH FAMILY Tie cock bird is gn -tnuiualls fine ipecimer.^ mejiuring exactls S feet from bead to foot 8 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD railway guard, of an old male who charged a goods-train coming at full speed down a steepgradient. The bird, as soon as he caught sight of the train, at once got on the line, andadvanced fearlessly to fight the monster. As the screeching engine approached, he rushedat it from straight in front, hissing angrily, and kicked. He was cut to pieces the ne.xtmoment. The Bedouin tribes hunt the ostrich on dromedaries, so also do the natives of Somaliland,and when near enough shoot it with poisoned arrows. In the Sahara, Canon Tristram tells usit is ridden down on horseback, a method of capture which the Sahara sportsman regards asthe greatest feat of hunting. The Bushmen, says Mr. Harting, like the Somalis, kill the ostrich with poisonedarrows, or catch it \-er\- cleverh- in pit-falls or with the lasso, and the

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