This horse is fed only on camel's milk, and is principally used for hunting ostriches, which are run down by it, and then captured.

Xenophon, in his Anabasis, speaks of ostriches in Mesopotamia being run down by fleet horses.

Licenses are not needed for the purpose of obtaining food, nor for shooting game damaging cultivated land, nor for shooting apes, beasts of prey, wild boars, reptiles, and all birds except ostriches and cranes.

Further, in the Moschi district of Kilima-Njaro, no one, whether possessing a license or not, is allowed without the special permission of the Governor to shoot antelopes, giraffes, buffaloes, ostriches, and cranes.

Major von Wissmann further suggests that the station authorities should endeavor to domesticate zebras (especially when crossed with muscat and other asses and horses), ostriches, and hyaena dogs crossed with European breeds.

Clad in sumptuous garments, he would gaze out of the window and think of his past exploits; and wish that he might again run in the desert in pursuit of ostriches and gazelles, hide among the bamboos to watch for leopards, ride through forests filled with rhinoceroses, climb the most inaccessible peaks in order to have a better aim at the eagles, and fight the polar bears on the icebergs of the northern sea.

As peacocks and ostriches have the gaudiest and finest feathers, yet cannot fly, so all his bravery is to flutter only.

In the desert there are many lions, leopards, and ostriches, the eggs of which I have often eaten, and found them very good.

The governor of Tetouan, who was sent to Paris in 1680, having brought as presents to the French King a lion, a lioness, a tigress, and four ostriches, Louis XIV shortly afterward despatched M. de Saint-Amand to Morocco with two dozen watches, twelve pieces of gold brocade, a cannon six feet long and other firearms.

3. House and Ground for Emus: Two awkward land birds, resembling ostriches.

So he led me into the kitchen, and there sat at the table, eating dinner very solemnly, two ostriches!

So long as they can bury their heads like ostriches! ...

Are Ostriches killed for their feathers, Uncle Roy?

Returning from the Elephant's Stable and Enclosure, we pass the shed and enclosure for Ostriches.

[Illustration: Ostriches.] Retracing our steps to the Southern Garden we find several buildings unnoticed; as a large Aviary, appropriated to various birds, but usually to those of rare description.

"Have not your eyes deceived you, my young friend, and are not those animals more likely to be ostriches?" "Ostriches!"

"Have not your eyes deceived you, my young friend, and are not those animals more likely to be ostriches?" "Ostriches!"

This strong animal, whose height sometimes exceeds two meters, has a straight beak; wings long, and formed of tufted feathers of a bluish shade; feet formed of three claws, furnished with nailswhich essentially distinguishes it from the ostriches of Africa.

Yes, they were giraffes, not ostriches, which had fled away in the opening!

Faith, I was at the end of my imagination, and after with great difficulty making them swallow ostriches for giraffesa god-send, indeed, Negoro!I no longer knew what to invent.

They again saw, in this first halt, some giraffes, which Harris had undoubtedly called ostriches.

The chief industries are the rearing of sheep, cattle, horses, and ostriches; coal-mining in the N. and diamond-seeking in the SW.; the exports comprise wool, hides, and diamonds.

" "You don't expect it will stay a secret, or that he'll go and pluck ostriches like geese, with Miles and Anne, and nobody know it? 'Twould be taking example by their ostriches, indeed!"

" "You don't expect it will stay a secret, or that he'll go and pluck ostriches like geese, with Miles and Anne, and nobody know it? 'Twould be taking example by their ostriches, indeed!"

"Much better than running after ostriches in the wilderness," quoth Philip.