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Identifier: halfhourswithfis00hold (find matches)
Title: Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, American Book Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 147. —Storks and Nest. scratched its ponderous head.The stork is often kept byplanters as a sort of watchdog, sometimes doing valua-ble service in driving off in-truders. An ally of the stork is thecurious adjutant bird, a gro-tesque figure either sitting orstanding. It is easily recog-nized by the curious pouch-like object under the throat.It stands five feet in height, an enormous bill, slightlycurved upward. Thehead and neck are barewith the exception of asingle patch like a wig atthe back of the head.The head and neck aredark and set off by anecktie-like band of vividred. In South Americathis bird is often tamed.One with which I wasacquainted was extremelydocile and would standsilently by my side as I
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Fig. 148. —Jabiru. SOME WADING BIRDS I8l and when walking slowly along has a most grotesque anddignified appearance, its wan and skinny visage givingit the appearance of a very ancient bird. It is con-sidered a valuable scavenger, having but one bad quality,that of not distinguishing between friend or foe. Onehas been known to pick up and swallow a kitten and apuppy belonging to its master, not to mention divers youngchickens. Indeed, I have heard of an adjutant bird thatswallowed a small cat, and there is apparently no limitto its appetite. The whale-headed stork is another allied form, its beakbeing so large that it. might be easily mistaken for awooden Dutch shoe. Twenty years ago one of thecharms of Florida was its flocks ofcranes and herons. They dottedthe sides of rivers and marshes,and were seen in every lagoonand all along the coast. Even inNew Jersey their nesting placeswere discovered, but it was foundthat their feathers were valuablefor decorative purposes, and warwas beg

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