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THE WHALE-HEADED STORK. 



for their especial benefit. Negro boys were also employed to supply their little pond with live 

 fish, upon which, and occasionally the intestines of animals killed for our use, chopped into 

 small pieces, they were reared." 



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WHALE-HEADED STORK. - Baltmiceps rex. 



The chief point in this fine bird is the huge bill, wliicli from its resemblance in size and 

 shape to a shoe, has gained for its owner a second title, namely. Shoe-bird. It is enonnously 

 expanded at each side of the beak, the edges of the upper mandible overhangs those of the 

 lower, and its tip is furnished with a large hook curved and sharp as that of an eagle, and 



