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JABIRU , according to Marcgrave the Brazilian name of a See also:bird, subsequently called by See also:Linnaeus Mycteria americana, one of the largest of the storks, Ciconiidae, which occurs from Mexjco southwards to the territory of the See also:Argentine See also:Republic. It stands between 4 and 5 ft. in height, and is conspicuous for its massive See also:bill, slightly upturned, and its entirely See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white plumage; but the See also:head and See also:neck are See also:bare and See also:black, except for about the See also:lower third See also:part of the latter, which is See also:bright red in the living bird. Very nearly allied to Mycteria, and also commonly called jabirus, are the birds of the genera Xenorhynchus and Ephippiorhynchus—the former containing one or (in the See also:opinion of some) two See also:species, X. australis and X. indicus, and the latter one only, E. senegalensis. These belong to the countries indicated by their names, and differ chiefly by their feathered head and neck, while the last is sometimes termed the See also:saddle-billed See also:stork from the very singular shape of its See also:beak. Somewhat more distantly related are the gigaptic birds known to Europeansin See also:India and elsewhere as See also:adjutant birds, belonging to the genus Leptoptilus, distinguished by their sad-coloured plumage, their black scabrous head, and their enormous tawny pouch, which depends occasionally some 16 in. or more in length from the lower part of the neck, and seems to be connected with the See also:respiratory and not, as commonly believed, with the See also:digestive See also:system. In many parts of India L. dubius, the largest of these birds, the bargila as See also:Hindus See also:call it, is a most efficient See also:scavenger, sailing aloft at a vast height and descending on the See also:discovery of See also:offal, though frogs and fishes also See also:form part of its See also:diet. It familiarly enters the large towns, in many of which an See also:account of its services it is strictly protected from injury, and, having satisfied its appetite, seeks the repose it has earned, sitting with its feet
Jabiru.
extended in front in a most See also:grotesque attitude. A second and smaller species, L. javanicus, has a more See also:southern and eastern range; while a third, L. crumenifer, of See also:African origin, and often known as the marabou-stork, gives its name to the beautifully soft feathers so called, which are the under-tail-coverts; the " See also:marabout " feathers of the plume-See also:trade are mostly supplied by other birds, the See also:term being apparently applied to any downy feathers. (A.
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