10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADJUTANT BIRD»
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We all march out into the ring at every performance and I cook a meal for the
pelican and the adjutant-bird, who are .in the menagerie. And everybody laughs
at us, 'specially the little people — we three look "so funny, they say. And I have ...
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A Practical Handbook of the Uriya Or Óḍiyá Language
THE FOX AND THE ADJUTANT BIRD. —_ ENGLISH. Although the fox was not
very much given to joking, and was rather given to getting angry, yet one day he
came to the determination to make fun of his neighbour the adjutant-bird.
Thomas James Maltby,
1874
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Scientific American: Supplement
ONE of the most remarkable members of the stork family is the adjutant bird or
argala, of India, which belongs to the genus Leptoptilus, and is a native of Asia
and Africa. This bird is called the adjutant by the English from its resemblance at
a ...
Douglas Dewar. THE ADJUTANT BIRD THE adjutant bird (Leptoptilus dubius) is
one of Nature's little jokes. It is a caricature of a bird, a mixture of gravity and
clownish- ness. Everything about it is calculated to excite mirth — its weird figure,
...
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The national standard encyclopedia: a dictionary of ...
ADJUTANT-BIRD 15 ADPRE9SED mander and communicates general orders. A
title formerly given to each one of a select number of Josuit fathers, who re- blded
with the genoralof the order, and had a provinco or country assigned to his ...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
In a communication lately received from a friend, this view of the subject appears
to be confirmed by what he himself was an eye-witness of. An Adjutant bird was
observed seeking its prey in a large piece of water, and wading till it reached to ...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal
In a communication lately received from a friend, this view of the subject appears
to be confirmed by what he himself was an eyewitness of. An Adjutant bird was
observed seeking its prey in a large piece of water, and wading till it reached to ...
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Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
In a communication lately received from a friend, this view of the subject appears
to be confirmed by what he himself was an eye-witness of. An Adjutant bird was
observed seeking his prey in a large piece of water, and wading till it reached to ...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View ...
We are all familiar with the appearance of the Adjutant bird, and know something
of its habits : its astonishing voracity, for instance, is a frequent topic of
conversation ; and the singular orange-coloured bag depending from the neck,
while it ...
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Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a
Bird Lover
See Adjutant-bird Adjutant-bird, 226, 228 Adobe houses, 87 Agelaius phoenicus,
46n Agrimony, 248 Aigues-Mortes, France, 168 Ailanthus, 153 Aimophila cassinii
, 65n Aimophila ruficeps, 5 3 Aix galericulata, l66n Aix sponsa, 166n Ajaia ...
Margaret Morse Nice,
1979