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Savage Sudan : its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life (1921)

Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) · London ; Edinburgh : Gurney and Jackson · leaf 390

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and sounds scientific]. The eagle sits regardless, while the grivets, in full view, spreading- wide their forearms, squat flat in fantastic attitudes on the open sand to drink their fill. These attitudes may be impossible to portray ; and the annexed attempts to do so very unwise . There are,… … Grivets Drinking— Dinder River. touched it ; otherwise the larger animals were here confined to reedbuck, oribi, doubtfully duiker, gazelle, and wart-hog, 1 with hyenas and troops of baboons. Our activities were chiefly confined to birds and the minor mammals, of which latter we secured, inter alia…

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