Word: bustard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intend to do on my trip next fall. By visiting all the countries on my itinerary, we shall obtain a concept of the swing of evolution. Opportunity will be given to study the lower forms of animal life, in the case of birds from the cassowary to the bustard, and in the case of mammals from marsupials to elephants and domestic animals, and in the case of humans from the Papuan, with his simple tribal government to the more complex man farther North...
...another place, an antelope grazed, a zebra pranced. These quadrupeds were hardly disturbed by the diverse noises put up in various directions by the bustard, the secretary-bird, the ostrich, the stork. In the distance, the crashing and the rumbling of a passing elephant could faintly be heard. At the edge of a lake, a giant buffalo bellowed loudly for its mate; a frightened puff adder shot through the grass with incredible speed...