THE HORNED SCREAMER. 



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They measure seven feet from wing to wing, and appear 

 almost to live in the air. The neck is partly bare, and very 

 extensible ; the bill long, and hooked at the end ; the feet 

 small, and webbed. The body of the male is entirely black, 

 while the hen has the head and neck white. 



It is probably a different species from the frigate-bird, or 

 sea-hawk, of the Eastern tropical seas. 



THE HORNED SCREAMER. 

 On the shores of a sand-bank, flocks of wild gulls may be 

 seen fiying overhead uttering their well-known cries, sand- 



THE 1IORNKD SCREAMER. 



pipers coursing along the edge of the water, here and there 

 lonely wading birds stalking about, and among them the 



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