SHOE-BILL 



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the scowling expression of its eyes, and above all its wonderful 

 bill of Avhich enough has been already said. In 1860 two living 

 examples were brought to England by Mr. Petherick, and exhibited 



Shoe-Bill. (After Wolf in Trans. Zool. Soc.) 



in the Zoological Gardens. He also discovered its mode of nidifi- 

 cation, and obtained its eggs, which are white like those of Storks ;^ 

 but the fullest account of the bird is that given by Von Heuglin 

 (Om. Nordost-Afrika's, pp. 1095-1099). 



1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 196-199 ; and Egypf, the Soudan, &e. pp. 365, 

 475-478 (London: 1861). 



