...discover it by the smell. But, if an animal is killed in thick grass, 494 THE MARABOU STORK. [CHAP, xix eight or ten feet high, the vultures will seldom discover...they require no water ; but some birds that make long nights over arid deserts, such as the Marabou stork, and the bustard, are provided with water-sacks...

...dincover it. I have frequently knirwn the bodies of large animals, such as elephants and buffaloes, to li. for days beneath the shade of the dense nabbuk bushes,...they require no water ; but some birds that make long flight* over arid deserts, such as the Marabou stork, and the bustard, are provided with water-Sacks...

...concealing the body : they will then upon near approach discover it by the smell. But, if an animal is killed in thick grass, eight or ten feet high, the...therefore they require no water ; but some birds that make 470 SIGHT, NUT SCENT, DIRECTS THE VULTURE. [CH. xix. long flights over arid deserts, such as the Marabou...

...the air ; and that the atmosphere contains regular strata, so to speak, of these natural scavengers, who, invisible to the human eye at their enormous...their wide-spread wings, and, soaring in circles, watch with their telescopic eyes the world beneath. It is an astonishing sight to witness the sudden...

...small vulture, then the large vulture, lastly the marabout stork. " I believe," says Sir Samuel, " that every species keeps to its own particular elevation,...watching with telescopic sight the world beneath." It is like a tale born of Persian or Arabian fantasy to hear that above the traveller in the desert...

...small vulture, then the large vulture, lastly the marabout stork. " I believe," says Sir Samuel, " that every species keeps to its own particular elevation,...watching with telescopic sight the world beneath." It is like a tale born of Persian or Arabian fantasy to hear that above the traveller in the desert...

...frequently known the bodies of large animals, such as elephants and buffaloes, to lie for days together beneath the shade of the dense nabbuk bushes, unattended...elevation they are in an exceedingly cool temperature, and therefore require no water ; but some birds that make long flights over arid deserts, such as the...

...and buffaloes, to lie for days together beneath the shade of the dense nabbuk bushes, unattended by 3 a single vulture ; whereas, if visible, they would...elevation they are in an exceedingly cool temperature, and therefore require no water ; but some birds that make long flights over arid deserts, such as the...

...elevation, and that the atmosphere contains regular strata of birds of prey, who, invisible to the hurnan eye at their enormous height, are constantly resting...elevation they are in an exceedingly cool temperature, and therefore require no water ; but some birds that make long flights over arid deserts, such as the...

...the Marabon stork fly at enormous altitudes. I believe that every species keeps to its own paiticular elevation, and that the atmosphere contains regular...soaring in circles, watching with telescopic sight tlie world beneath. At that great elevation they are in an exceedingly cool temperature ; therefore,...