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Identifier: cassellsbookofbi03breh (find matches)
Title: Cassell's book of birds
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London (etc.), Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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e, after depositing her eggs, exhibits but slight interest inher progeny THE OSTRICH.The Ostrich (Struthio camcius) is at once recognisable by its very powerful body, long andpartially bare throat, and small flat head. The moderately long, depressed, and straight bill isrounded at its extremity, and has the open longitudinal nostrils prolonged nearly half-way down thebeak. The large brilliant eyes are protected by lashes, and \\\i open uncovered ears lined with ahairy growth. The long legs are bare or only overspread with a few bristles on the thighs, while thetarsi are covered with large scales, and tlie feet furnished witli but two toes : the innermost of which. 2SS cassells book of birds. is amied witli a large, broad, blunt claw. The wings are furnislied with waving plumes, and two bareshafts, not unlike porcupines quills. In this bird the sternum has no keel, but is simply convex,shield-like, and covered with a callous pad or elastic cushion, having a hard rough surface unclothed
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THE OSTRICH (StriUhto cmneliis). with feathers, on which the birds support their bodies when reposing on the ground. The thickcurly plumage differs in its coloration according to the sex of the bird. In the male the small rump-feathers are coal-black, the flowing wing and tail feathers of a dazzling whiteness. The colour of thefemale is a bro\vnish grey, mingled with dirty white. The young resemble the mother after the firstmoulting. The height of the fiilly-grown male is eight feet, and his length from the tip of the beak

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