Ostriches are now domesticated in South Africa in large numbers for the sake of their plumes.
Once more, take the gigantic moa of New Zealand, that enormous bird who was to the ostrich as the giraffe is to the antelope; a monstrous emu, as far surpassing the ostriches of to-day as the ostriches surpass all the other fowls of the air.
A flying moa is almost an impossible conception; even the ostrichescompete practically with the zebras and antelopes rather than with the eagles, the condors, or the albatrosses.
One of these was to take in the enemy's scouts by tethering ostriches to bushes on the hills.
In Patagonia ostriches are not bred, as at the Cape of Good Hope, but run wild, and are getting exterminated rapidly.
Robes made of the breasts of ostriches are lovely enough, but one of cape-pigeons’ breasts is passing lovely.
Those are for the food of the young ostriches as soon as they are born.
During the day but little game had been seen,--a few zebras and ostriches only; all other varieties had disappeared.
The horses being now fresh and in good heart, Alexander and the Major went in pursuit of this animal very often, but without success, as the chase was continually interrupted by the herds of ostriches and other game which fell in their way.
I like to believe that feet of this sort were popular among ostriches at that time, being loath to destroy early beliefs.
The two ostriches here, at the Zoo, have no pet names bestowed on them by the keepers.
And here I got my first slice of luck, potting a brace of elephants, both of them magnificent tuskers, as well as another rhinoceros, three giraffes, and seven cock ostriches in perfect plumage.
The ostriches have great strength in their long legs, which are their only means of attack.
During these droughts it often becomes necessary to feed the ostriches with prickly-pear leaves, which are cut up in a machine.
As though to keep his hand in, he practised from time to time on the ostriches with his bolas, bringing down the ungainly birds with perfect ease from a distance of sixty or seventy yards.
As soon as the concealed hunters see the Ostriches fairly settled down to their course, they dash off at right angles to the line which the birds are taking, and in this way come near enough to use their weapons.
They furnish themselves with a supply of water, and then start in pursuit of the first flock of Ostriches they find.
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
The Arabs often keep tame Ostriches about their tents, the birds being as much accustomed to their quarters as the horses.
Throughout this country ostriches are exceedingly wild: the Rev.
A fewostriches appeared, but they were too shy even for bullet.
For all reply they ran like ostriches to the nearest rocks, tittering the cry of alarm, and when we drew near each man implored us to harry his neighbour's cattle.
This day ostriches and antelopes were observed in considerable numbers.
There are great numbers of ostriches in these mountains, by hunting of which, many of the natives subsist.
At all the three towns, Sockna, Hoon, and Wadan, it is the practice to keep tame ostriches in a stable, and in two years to take three cullings of the feathers.
They saw ostriches here, and a sort of beasts like harts, having wonderfully long necks, and extremely wild.
The ostriches are particularly careful to conceal, if possible, the places where their nests are made.
Xenophon relates, that the army of Cyrus met ostriches and wild asses together, in the plains of Syria.
The female ostriches are entirely black, or rather, in their youth, of a very dark gray, but have no white feathers in the tail.
Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns: and ostriches shall dwell therein, and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be built up from generation to generation.
But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there: 13:22.
In the cursorial races, such as the Ostrichesand the Apteryx, whose wings are not available for flying, the keel is entirely wanting.
Beasts of the field shall dwell there; owls shall inhabit the houses, ostriches shall make their home there, and the satyrs shall dance.
Presently the Ostrich left him, and casting his eyes round he was astonished to see that all the young Ostriches were running about, scattered over the ground, while the Caranchos were pursuing, knocking down, and killing them.
The Emperor Firmus caused his chariot to be drawn byostriches of a prodigious size, so that it seemed rather to fly than roll.
We were indeed in Africa; and the ostricheshelped us to realize it.
Down in the camps he could see the black dots moving, where great ostriches stalked, and every now and then the triple boom, several times repeated, from the throat of one or other of the huge birds, rolled out upon the morning air.
The ostriches would look at the strange birds, but, not suspecting danger, allowed them to approach.
Presently they cautiously approached the ostriches to leeward, stopping every now and then and pretending to be feeding.
Even had it been on the side by which the ostriches had gone off, and by which they, the hunters, conjectured they would return, the bush might have served.
They would thus be enabled to note every movement either Swartboy or the ostriches should make.
A hyena during the night had stolen into camp, and had eaten up the girth and part of the flaps of Hendriks saddle; and before the damage could be repaired the ostriches had gone off from the nest.
The announcement came from Congo, who had been loitering out on the desert side of the mokhala grove, and who came running into camp, in breathless haste, to report that a large flock of ostriches were out upon the plain!
For some time the only one that watched the movements of the ostriches was the Kaffir.
On the other side of the mokhala grove from that on which the ostriches had been observed, lay a wide open plain.
It had evidently strayed away from home, and "dogged" the ostriches to their nest, so as to get at their eggs.
It has been known from the earliest times, and must have been more numerous in the days of Heliogabalus than now, since that tyrant had the brains of six hundred ostriches served up at a single feast!
This he did, because, in a few minutes, the ostriches were very distant over the plain, and their pursuer the fennec was no longer visible to the naked eye.
All at once the ostriches came to a stop; and, after an apparent consultation among themselves, the cock squatted down, and his long legs were no longer seen.
And, although he was never allowed out on the farm, as some of the American ostriches were, he grew in time to be quite contented, and even fairly happy.
Ostriches don't believe in being too fastidious; any eggs that happened to be outside the nest would be there for the young ostriches to eat when they were hatched.
Deprived of their power of flying, the ostriches fell so heavily to the earth, and struck the ground so violently, that it made a deep mark on their breasts.
This is the reason that ostriches have such tiny wings, and that one and all have this peculiar mark on their breasts.
And so it went on until the young ostrichescame out.
She saw there two enormousostriches running angrily round in a narrow circle.
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