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hold water, but is connected with the utterance<br />

during the breeding-season <strong>of</strong> a peculiar sound<br />

resembling "oak." (43. <strong>The</strong> following papers<br />

have been lately written on this subject: Pr<strong>of</strong>. A.<br />

Newton, in the 'Ibis,' 1862, p. 107; Dr. Cullen,<br />

ibid. 1865, p. 145; Mr. Flower, in 'Proc. Zool.<br />

Soc.' 1865, p. 747; and Dr. Murie, in 'Proc. Zool.<br />

Soc.' 1868, p. 471. In this latter paper an excellent<br />

figure is given <strong>of</strong> the male Australian Bustard<br />

in full display with the sack distended. It is<br />

a singular fact that the sack is not developed in<br />

all the males <strong>of</strong> the same species.) A crow-like<br />

bird inhabiting South America (see Cephalopterus<br />

ornatus, Fig. 40) is called the umbrellabird,<br />

from its immense top knot, formed <strong>of</strong> bare<br />

white quills surmounted by dark-blue plumes,<br />

which it can elevate into a great dome no less<br />

than five inches in diameter, covering the whole<br />

head. This bird has on its neck a long, thin,<br />

cylindrical fleshy appendage, which is thickly<br />

clothed with scale-like blue feathers. It probably<br />

serves in part as an ornament, but likewise

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