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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.” 
WHALE-HEADED STOBK.—JBal(eniceps 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 large hook, curved and sharp as that of an eagle, and 
