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GIGANTIC STORK. 
did not seem very particular, as it would eat any 
kind of offal presented to it. 
Latham asserts that this is a solitary bird, fre- 
quenting the most sequestered places to breed : it 
builds on trees, laying two or three eggs, of a dull 
white, shaded with green, slightly marked with 
brown spots. Its flesh is unfit for food, being as 
bad as that of the White Stork. 
GIGANTIC STORK. 
(Ciconia Argala.) 
Ci. cinerea^ capite colloqne nudis, abdomine humerisque candidis. 
Cinereous Stork, with the head and neck naked j the abdomen 
and shoulders white. 
Ardea dubia. Gmel. Spst. Nat. 1. 624. 
Ardea Argala. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 676 . 8. 
Gigantic Crane. Lath. Ind. Orn. 4.45. — Lath. Si/n, Sup. 232. 
pi. 115. — Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. 2Q3. 
This gigantic individual is thus described by 
that able ornithologist, Latham : “ Size from five 
to seven feet in length, and when standing erect 
it is five feet high. The beak is of a vast size, 
sharp pointed, compressed on the sides, of a yel- 
lowish white colour, and opens very far into the 
head: the nostrils a slit placed high up, near the 
base : the whole head and neck are naked ; the 
front is yellow 5 the fore-part of the neck the 
