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Keywords: Curious creatures in zoology (15382423568).jpg 200 CURIOUS CREATURES <br> fisher had another very useful trait If a dead King- <br> fisher were hung up by a cord it would point its beak <br> to the quarter whence the wind blew Shakespeare <br> mentions this property in King Lear ii I <br> Turn their halcyon beaks <br> With every gale and vary of their masters <br> And Marlowe in his Jew of Malta i i <br> But now how stands the wind <br> Into what corner peers my halcyon bill <br> THE PELICAN <br> The fable of the Pelican in her piety vulning <br> herself as it is heraldically described is so well known <br> as hardly to be worth <br> mentioning even to <br> contradict it In the <br> first place the her- <br> aldic bird is as un- <br> like the real one as <br> it is possible to be ; <br> but the legend seems <br> to have had its origin <br> in Egypt where the <br> vulture was credited <br> with this extraordi- <br> nary behaviour and this bird is decidedly more in <br> accordance with the heraldic ideal Du Bartas singing <br> of Charitable birds praises equally the Stork and the <br> Pelican <br> The Stork still eyeing her deer Thessalie <br> The Pelican c mforteth cheerfully 23574955 76213 32031 Page 200 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574955 1890 10 5962/bhl title 32031 Ashton John Biodiversity Heritage Library Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus throughout the text Monsters Are Real Animals University of California Libraries archive org bhl page 23574955 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574955 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween university of california libraries archive org bhlmonstersrreal Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-19 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15382423568 2015-08-25 20 55 22 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Curious creatures in zoology Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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