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THE WHALE-HEADED STORK. 



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

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

 small pieces, they were reared." 





WHALE-HEADED STORK. Balamiceps rex. 



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

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

 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 larsre hook, curved and sharp as that of an eagle, and 



