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-, stood by him arid looked out for them. It 

 ate the buds of flowers, and particularly of roses ; 

 also the substance of cucumbers, but not the outside. 

 From these observations the bustard is evidently fitted 

 more particularly to live on animal food*." 



One of the most voracious of carnivorous birds is 

 the gigantic crane, or, as it is called in India, the 

 adjutant (Ciconia argala, TEMMINCK). It does 

 not, however, rank in systematic arrangements as a 

 bird of prey any more than the bustard, though we 

 have just seen that the latter lives chiefly on animal 

 food. The structure of the stomach in the adjutant 

 corresponds with this similarity in habit, though the 

 solvent glands are differently formed from those of 



yfhe fctomach of the Adjutant, opened to show its internal surface, and the 

 gastric glands arranged in two oval groups 



* Comparative Anatomy, i. 277. 



