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THE JABIRU. 



Gigantic Crane. 



an atmosphere, most probably, by the supply of air collected 

 in this bag. 



In its appetite the Hurgila is as great a glutton as our 

 Heron. Nothing comes amiss to its all-digesting stomach. 

 A leg of mutton, and a litter of live kittens swallowed whole, 

 proved equally acceptable with the additional sauce of earth, 

 bones, and hair, picked up between times. 



The fourth genus, Jabiru, very much resembles the 

 Storks, and appears to have similar habits, the chief distinction 

 consisting in the form of the bill, which is rather fuller, and 

 slightly curved upwards at the end. The skin of the neck is 

 wrinkled, and so flaccid that it hangs down like the dewlap 

 of a cow, and probably may be of the same use as the pouch 

 of the Hurgila above mentioned. It is, indeed, from con- 



