OSTRICH 



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bird that is to be found in the literature of ornithology. 1 As 

 many conspicuous forms, the Ostrich is disappearing before the per- 

 secution of man, and this fact it is which gives the advantage to older 

 travellers, for there are several districts, some of wide extent, known 

 to have been frequented by the Ostrich within the present century, 



OSTRICH. 



especially towards the extremities of its African range as on the 

 borders of Egypt and the Cape Colony in which it no longer occurs, 

 while in Asia there is evidence, more or less trustworthy, of its 



1 A good summary of it is contained in the Ostriches and Ostrich Farming of 

 Messrs. De Mosenthal and Harting, from which the accompanying figure is, with 

 permission, taken. Von Heuglin, in his Ornithologie Nordost- Africa's (pp. 925- 

 935), has given more particular details of the Ostrich's distribution in Africa. 



