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the scowling expression of its eyes, and above all its wonderful 
bill of which enough has been already said. In 1860 two living 
examples were brought to England by Mr. Petherick, and exhibited 
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SnHoer-Bitt. (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 ;1 
but the fullest account of the bird is that given by Von Heuglin 
(Orn. Nordost-Afrika’s, pp. 1095-1099). 
1 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 196-199 ; and Egypt, the Soudan, &c. pp. 365, 
475-478 (London: 1861). 
