Cassell's book of birds; vol. 4Brehm, Alfred Edmund
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Cassell's book of birds; vol. 4
Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Birds
11. The Woodcock (_Scolopax rusticola_) 32
12. The Sanderling (_Calidris arenaria_) 37
13. The Ruff (_Philomachus pugnax_) 40
14. Ruffs Fighting 41
15. The Scooping Avocet (_Recurvirostra avocetta_) 52
16. The Great Curlew (_Numenius arquatus_) 53
17. The White or Sacred Ibis (_Threskiornis religiosa_) 57
18. The Spoonbill (_Platalea leucorodia_) 60
19. The Whale-headed Stork, or Shoe-beak (_Balæniceps rex_) 61
20. The Savaku, or Boat-bill (_Cancroma cochlearia_) 64
21. The Hammer-head, or Shadow-bird (_Scopus umbretta_) 65
22. The Ibis-like Tantalus (_Tantalus ibis_) 66
23. Adjutants 68
24. The Simbil (_Spenorhynchus Abdimii_) 69
25. The Senegal Jabiru (_Mycteria Senegalensis_) 72
26. The Marabou (_Leptoptilos crumenifer_) 73
27. The African Clapper-bill (_Anastomus lamelligerus_) 76
28. Group of Herons 77
29. The Giant Heron (_Ardea Goliath_) 79
30. The Great White Heron (_Herodias alba_) 80
31. The Lesser Egret (_Herodias garzetta_) 81
32. Day and Night Herons 84
33. The Common Bittern (_Botaurus stellaris_) 85
34. The Sun Bittern, or Peacock Heron (_Eurypyga helias_) 88
35. Crowned, Demoiselle, and Common Cranes 92
36. The Cariama, or Crested Screamer (_Dicholophus cristatus_) 93
37. The Gold-breasted Trumpeter (_Psophia crepitans_) 96
38. The Aniuma, or Horned Screamer (_Palamedea cornuta_) 97
39. The Golden Rail, or Painted Cape Snipe (_Rhynchæa Capensis_) 100
40. The Jacana (_Parra Jacana_) 104
41. The Hyacinthine Porphyrio (_Porphyrio hyacinthinus_) 108
42. Home of the Moor-hens (_Gallinula chloropus_) 109
43. The Stilt Bird (_Charadrius himantopus_) 113
44. The Flamingo (_Phœnicopterus roseus_) 116
45. The Whistling Swan (_Cygnus musicus_) 124
46. Black-necked Swans (_Cygnus nigricollis_) 128
47. The Black Swan (_Cygnus_ or _Chenopsis atratus_) 129
48. The Spur-winged Goose (_Plectropterus Gambensis_) 132
49. The Grey or Wild Goose (_Anser cinereus_) 133
50. The Brent Goose (_Bernicla torquata_) 137
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