48 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
vegetable-feeder, and a large and handsome Bird, standing 
between 3 and 4 feet high, and running and walking well as 
well as flying rapidly. 





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The Kagu (Rhinochetus jubatus). ‘ 
A rare visitant to our shores is the Courser (Cursorius 
gallicus, fig. 49), one of a group of ten species which, like the 
Bustards, love to range over open plains of the Old World. 
In the Southern part of the New World, from Mexico south- 
