Colonel Chesney affirms that neither the Sarus nor the Pyramus is fordable.
According to Jerdon, a young sarus is not bad eating, but old birds are worthless for the table.
Unlike the adjutant, whose nest is a huge platform of sticks placed on the top of a very lofty tree, the sarus builds its nursery on the ground.
The adjutant is, as we have seen, a stork, while the sarus is a crane.
The peafowl and sarus cranes are indulging in the pleasures of courtship.
The nest of the sarus crane (Grus antigone) is nearly always an islet some four feet in diameter, which either floats in shallow water or rises from the ground and projects about a foot above the level of the water.
The display of the sarusis not an elaborate process.
The legs of the sitting sarus crane are folded under it, as are those of incubating flamingos and other long-legged birds.
Raoul" makes the extraordinary statement that incubating sarus cranes do not sit when incubating, but hatch the eggs by standing over them, one leg on each side of the nest!
Floating nests are constructed by sarus cranes, purple coots and the jacanas.
The Sarus now enters the sea almost due south of Tarsus, but there are clear indications that at one period it joined the Pyramus, and that the united rivers ran to the sea west of Kara-tash.
He attacked Sarus at an unguarded moment, when he was accompanied only by eighteen or twenty of his valiant followers.
The death of Sarus dissolved the loose alliance which Adolphus still maintained with the usurpers of Gaul.
Sarus the Goth was ordered to lay the head of the rebel at the feet of the emperor Honorius; and the forces of Britain and Italy were unworthily consumed in this domestic quarrel.
The references to Sarus (accidentally omitted here) are Olympiodoros, p.
In the story of Hermanaricus also several incidents, notably the death of Sunilda and the vengeance subsequently exacted by her brothers Sarus and Ammius (cap.
Adolphus was assassinated in the palace of Barcelona; the laws of the succession were violated by a tumultuous faction; and a stranger to the royal race, Singeric, the brother of Sarus himself, was seated on the Gothic throne.
The legs of the sarus are also bright red and are nearly a yard long.
I have not had the good fortune to witness a nest of the sarus in course of construction, but from the behaviour of the owners when heavy rain falls after the nest is completed, I believe that both sexes take part in construction.
The sarus is the only crane that stays in India throughout the year.
The sarus from Burma is now known in the scientific world as Grus sharpii--not because very sharp eyes are necessary in order to distinguish him from the Indian form!
There are instances on record of a sarus having pined away and died because it had lost its mate.
So that the sarus can, when he wishes to assert himself, look over the head of the average human being without unduly stretching his neck.
When the sarus had advanced thus to within four feet of my men and looked as though he were about to spring at them, one of these lunged at him with a short stick, and he would have been struck had he not beaten a hasty retreat.
Then, while the neck was still so bent, the sarus dipped his bill into the water.
In another part of the jhil a couple of sarus cranes (Grus antigone) are visible.
The sarus might well be called the Indian crane, for it is one of the most characteristic and beautiful birds of Northern India; moreover, it appears to be found nowhere outside India.
That, says Hume, is the nearest approach to a fight for its penates he has ever seen a sarus make.
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