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Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?

In another enclosure, cranes and adjutant birds flapped their great wings, and made long, hopping jumps, and then stood still, as if posing for their pictures.

I knew him at once to be an adjutant bird—the chief of fishermen.

When I arrived, hat in hand, he smiled, examined my firearms, and proceeded for sport, leading the way to a high tree, on which some adjutant birds were nesting, and numerous vultures resting.