WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 



having found a queer-shaped piece of wood which he had 

 put on one side before leaving Antwerp, and upon ex- 

 amination he at once saw that the bird had lost the 

 artificial lower jaw that had been made for him by his 

 former master at Bordeaux, at which place the bird had 

 been kept for a long time. This lower jaw had been 

 fastened on by two small hooks and studs. Having got 

 loose during the journey to the ship it dropped off, and as 

 the poor bird could not pick up his food without the under 

 jaw, Jamrach was obliged to feed it by hand until Captain 

 van Diependre made another voyage to Antwerp, and 

 brought back the lower jaw of this unlucky half-billed 

 hombill. 



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