10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHINOCEROS BIRD»
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rhinoceros-bird exists! The rhinoceros-bird is a little thing which never deserts the
mighty beast. It perches upon his head or back, and flutters about him, and
makes of him its world. To the rhinoceros-bird the rhinoceros is all there is of
earth.
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Winston's cumulative ... encyclopedia: a comprehensive ...
Rhinoceros-bird Rhizopoda This animal is of ferocious disposition, is quick and
active, and greatly feared by the natives. Other allied African species are the
keitloa or Sloan's rhinoceros (R. Keitloa), the white rhinoceros (R, or
Ceratotherium ...
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WINSTON'S CUMULATIVE LOOSE-LEAF ENCYCLOPEDIA A COMPREHENSIVE ...
Rhinoceros-bird. Rhizopoda. This animal is of ferocious disposition, is quick and
active, and greatly feared by the natives. Other allied African species are the
keitloa or Sloan's rhinoceros (R. Keitloa), the white rhinoceros (iJ. or
Ceratotherium ...
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The importance of
bird life: a popular account of its ...
The cowbird, however, seldom or never alights upon the cattle themselves as
does that strange black cuckoo of South America, the ani, and the starling-like
rhinoceros-bird of Africa. These have an especial fondness for ticks and other
body ...
George Inness Hartley, 1922
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The Graduated Course of Translation from English Into ...
RHINOCEROS-BIRD. Before I could reach the proper distance to fire, several
rhinoceros-birds, by which he was attended, warned him of his impending
danger by sticking their bills into his ear, and uttering their harsh, grating cry.
Thus roused ...
Charles Cassal, Karcher, 1886
animals as the camel, ox, hippopotamus, elephant, and especially the rhinoceros
, one of their names being ''the rhinoceros-bird;" and while we may appreciate the
little creatures' attempts to protect and warn their great friend they are a source ...
Ella Farman Pratt, Charles Trowbridge Pratt, 1887
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.
We are inclined to believe that the bird is particularly what our author calls it, a
rhinoceros-bird ; because the animal, from his inert and sluggish habits, and
deeply furrowed hide, would not only supply the bird with mure food than ...
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The world book: organized knowledge in story and picture ...
So strong with a little bird, about the size of a thrush, is this horn that the animal
easily uproots and which is known as the rhinoceros bird. It overturns bushes and
small trees with it, that perches on the animal's head or broad back, it may more ...
Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth Decatur Foster, George Herbert Locke, 1920
A. very singular creature is the Rhinoceros-Bird, whose ministraliens to the
rhinoceros are like those of the Tr-ociia'lus-Bird to the crocodile. The faithfulness
of the rhinoceros-bird is remarkable; it apparently never sleeps nor abandons its
vigils ...
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Eleven Years in Central South Africa
The lory is very abundant, and so are the kingfishers, woodpeckers, and
sparrows. The rhinoceros' bird is of a brownish colour, with red hooked beak,
somewhat smaller in size than the common English thrush. It is called the
rhinoceros' bird ...
Thomas Morgan Thomas, 2012
