If it were a question of a beak or a nose, both are none the less joined to the end of a long neck turned backward, and, strictly speaking, it may be said that an ostrich is only a half giraffe.

In the Annals of Sporting it is observed:"If we are to place confidence in traveller's tales, the ostrich is swifter than the Arabian horse.

[Illustration: The Ostrich is the largest bird.]