MAGUARI STORK Ea 
heavy flappings and a loud qua-qua cry. At sunset 
they quit their retreat, to ascend a stream or seek 
some distant feeding-ground, and travel with a slow 
flight, bird succeeding bird at long intervals, and 
uttering their far-sounding, hoarse, barking night-cry. 
Where the flock lives amongst the rushes, in places 
where there are no trees, the birds, by breaking down 
the rushes across each other, construct false nests or 
platforms to perch on. These platforms are placed 
close together, usually where the rushes are thickest, 
and serve the birds for an entire winter. 
The breeding habits of the Night-Heron have. 
been described in the account of an Egrets’ heronry. 
MAGUARI STORK 
Euxenura maguari 
Plumage white; wings and upper tail-coverts black; naked lores 
and feet red; bill horn-colour; length 40, wing 20 inches. 
Tue Maguari Stork is a well-known bird on the 
pampas, breeding in the marshes, and also wading 
for its food in the shallow water ; but it is not nearly 
so aquatic in its habits as the Jabiru, and after the 
breeding-season is over it is seen everywhere on the 
dry plains. Here these birds prey on mice, snakes 
and toads, but also frequently visit the cultivated 
fields in quest of food. When mice or frogs are 
exceptionally abundant on the pampas, the Storks 
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