According to Temminck, there is a notable difference between the Marabou and the Argala, the characteristic mark of the latter frequently hanging down a foot, while it is much shorter in the Marabou.
The long white feathers, celebrated for their delicacy and airiness, which are known in commerce by the name of Marabou feathers, come from this Bird and the African Marabou.
The Marabou inhabits India; they feed on Reptiles and all kinds of filth, and this fact has been the means of securing for them the goodwill of the people.
Horrified at the discovery, and cursing the soldier in whom he had misplaced his trust, he sprang up and sought his horse, intending to start for Marabou at once.
After beating along the coast for several hours in the teeth of a rising gale, in search of a suitable landing place, Marabouwas selected, and at one o'clock in the morning of the second of July the disembarkation was begun.
But the marabou has forfeited all respect--converted it into nose-tint.
He has a certain reputation to maintain before visitors, but after hours, when the gates are shut and the keepers are not there to see, the marabou stork is a sad dog.
This being the case, there is a proverb about cleanliness that makes one wonder why the marabou stork doesn't wash himself.
But, as a shocking example, the marabou is quite bad enough with his awful head in the morning; his awful head and his disreputable nose, that looks to want a good scraping.
I should like to see the marabou stork on his nightly ran-tan, if only to gloat over his lapse of dignity, just as one would give much to see Benjamin Franklin with his face blacked, drunk and disorderly and being locked up.
A number of Marabou storks had also arrived, and were standing proudly among the crowd of vultures, preparing to perform the duty of sextons, when the skin should become sufficiently decomposed.
Vultures and the Marabou stork fly at enormous altitudes.
If she had not felt sure she wouldn't have put on the grey kid gloves, the mantle and the bonnet with the whitemarabou feather.
She could have cried when she looked at the grey gloves and the frilled mantle, and the sad, insulted face in the bonnet with the white marabou feather.
Hunting the marabou is attended with great difficulty, as the bird possesses wonderful cunning, and often contrives to outwit the most skillful hunter.
It was near to where I had seen the marabou on my way up, but these beautiful creatures had now all disappeared.
They were worth to us about sixpence apiece, whilemarabou feathers are scarcely to be had for money in Europe.
After leaving the vley where the marabou were, we rode on and on across the shadeless, waterless, sun-baked plain.
These marabou birds, by the way, were first discovered to exist in Togo by Schomburgk during this very trip, he coming across a flock of them accidentally, just as I had done.
However, I was destined to get my marabou feathers later on, and that, too, without doing violence to Schomburgk's feelings by killing even one single bird.
When we went back to Mangu, and he told them there what he had seen, they absolutely declined to believe him, holding that he must have mistaken some other commoner species of the crane family for the rare and valuable marabou stork.
Soon the camp was alive with Konkombwa bringing marabou plumes for sale.
I may add that after coming to London I made frequent inquiries in the millinery shops of the West End for African marabou feathers, but never once did I succeed in getting even a peep at the genuine article.
Yes, there could be no doubt about it; they were marabou feathers, of perfect texture, and large size.
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