Ostrich Sentence Examples

The ostrich and secretary-bird are also found.

There are sulphur, lithia and other springs near the city, and an ostrich farm and an alligator farm in the suburbs.

The exports include cattle, hides, skins, wool and ostrich feathers.

Only in the ostrich it remains throughout life, being specialized into a large receptacle for the urine, an absolutely unique arrangement.

Ostrich farming is growing in favour.

This fact in the ostrich appears to have been known already to Geoffroy St-Hilaire from his own observation in Egypt, but does not seem to have been published by him.

Of birds, eagles, vultures, hawks, owls and quails are common; snipe, curlews, plovers, storks and herons frequent the marshy parts; and the ostrich the desert.

The ostrich seems almost to have disappeared.

The collection of animals included a donkey, horse, ostrich and a llama, all of which were either relaxing in the shade or inside the barn.

In the ostrich and its allies no trace of this median centre of ossification ever occurs; but with these exceptions its existence is invariable in all other birds.

The ostrich is found in the Marico and Limpopo districts, and more rarely elsewhere; the great kori bustard and the koorhaan are common.

Omdurman is the headquarters of the native traders in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the chief articles of commerce being ivory, ostrich feathers and gum arabic from Darfur and Kordofan.

The chief articles brought by the caravans are ostrich feathers, skins and ivory and one of the principal imports istea.

Their merchandise consists of sheep and goats, gum and resin, skins and ostrich feathers.

The animals chiefly hunted were the gazelle, ibex, oryx, stag, wild ox, wild sheep, hare and porcupine; also the ostrich for its plumes, and the fox, jackal, wolf, hyaena and leopard for their skins, or as enemies of the farm-yard.

The most obvious distinctive character presented by the ostrich is the presence of two toes only, the third and fourth, on each foot - a character absolutely peculiar to the genus Struthio.

Africa is still, as in ancient days, the continent in which the ostrich chiefly flourishes.

A fine variety of ostrich is commonly found.

They also keep ostrich farms, the feathers being of good quality.

Why does an ostrich have such a long neck?

Beside, who's going to feed the ostrich?

A royal blue ostrich bag sold for $15,600.

Dooney & Bourke also carry other exotic print and leather collections, including zebra print, ostrich, and croc bags.

Much difference of opinion obtains as to the affinities of these birds, which were far larger than an ostrich; they were undoubtedly incapable of flight and there are indications of teeth in the upper jaw.

Guanacos and Argentine hares are found in abundance in Neuquen, and to a lesser degree the South American ostrich.

With the increase of transport facilities it is probable that the trade with the Mediterranean coasts will also be diverted to the south, and profitable minor branches of trade would be formed in leather, ostrich feathers, gums, fibres, &c. The imports from Great Britain, which come via Forcados, are mostly cotton goods, provisions and hardware.

C The wild ostrich' is disappearing before the persecution of man, and there are many districts, some of wide extent, frequented by the ostrich in the 19th century - especially towards the extremities of its African range - in which it no longer occurs, while in Asia there is evidence, more or less trustworthy, of its former existence in most parts of the south-western deserttracts, in few of which it is now to be found.

Lichtenstein long ago remarked' that if it 1 A good summary of the present distribution is contained in the Ostriches and Ostrich Farming of De Mosenthal and Harting, from which the accompanying figure is, with permission, taken.

Reichenow in Die Vogel Afrikas, have given more particular details of the ostrich's distribution in Africa.

Though the ostrich ordinarily inhabits the most arid districts, it requires water to drink; more than that, it will frequently bathe, and sometimes even, according to Von Heuglin, in the sea.

The question whether to recognize more than one species of ostrich has been continually discussed without leading to a satisfactory solution.

Douglass, Ostrich Farming in South Africa (London, 1881); modern anatomical work on the group is referred to in the article BIRDS.

The Sudan produce (ivory, ostrich feathers, &c.) formerly brought to Bengazi by caravan, has now been almost wholly diverted to Tripoli, the eastern tracks from Wadai and Borku by way of Kufra to Aujila having become so unsafe that their natural difficulties are no longer worth braving.

On the Karroo are numerous ostrich farms. Lucerne is very largely grown as fodder for the cattle.

Birds include the ostrich, great kori bustard, the eagle, vulture, hawk and crane, francolin, golden cuckoo, bootie, scarlet and yellow finches, kingfishers, parrots (in the eastern regions), pelicans and flamingoes.

Of the exports raw gold was valued at £33,303,000, diamonds at £6,370,000, wool at £3,728,000 and ostrich feathers at £2,091,000.

There are also numerous ostrich farms, in particular in the districts of Oudtshoorn and Ladismith in the Little Karroo, where lucerne grows with extraordinary luxuriance.

In the surrounding region are several large ostrich farms and a small exhibition ranch.

Ostrich farms have been successfully established in the Salt river valley since 1893; in 1 9 07 there were six farms in the Salt river valley, on which there were about 1354 birds; the most successful food for the ostrich is alfalfa.

Feather-Market Hall, where are held the sales of ostrich feathers, seats 5000 persons.

The exports are mainly the products of the eastern part of the Cape province, the most important being ostrich feathers, wool and mohair.

Chacmas frequently strip orchards and fruit-gardens, break and devour ostrich eggs, and kill lambs and kids for the sake of the milk in their stomachs.

The chief articles of export are coffee, skins, ivory, civet, ostrich feathers, gum, pepper, kat plant (used by Moslems for its stimulating properties), gold (in small quantities) and live stock.

Ostrich farms are maintained in the Karroo and in other parts of the country, young birds having been first enclosed in 1857.

The staple exports are diamonds, gold (from the Witwatersrand mines), wool, copper ore, ostrich feathers, mohair, hides and skins.

In the same year (1905) 471,024 lb of ostrich feathers were exported valued at £1,081,187.

The resemblance of the rhea to the ostrich (q.v.) was at once perceived, but the differences between them are also very evident.

Though considerably smaller than the ostrich, and wanting its fine plumes, the rhea in general aspect far more resembles that bird than the other Ratitae.

These have been arranged in twelve species, belonging to two genera, Aepyornis and Mullerornis, which varied in size from that of a bustard to birds much exceeding an ostrich, and rivalling the recently extinct moa of New Zealand, the largest species being about to ft.

Other industries undertaken or developed by Europeans are silk and cotton weaving and raphia-fibre preparation, and ostrich farming.

Among the birds most characteristic of Africa are the ostrich and the secretary-bird.

The ostrich is widely dispersed, but is found chiefly in the desert and steppe regions.

The camel, horse and ostrich are not found south of Kordofan and Sennar.

The chief products of the Sudan for export are gum, ivory, ostrich feathers, dates and rubber.

Place the Ostrich Meat in pan and add the bouquet garni, cloves and port, then arrange the plums over the top.

Pieces of mozzarella cheese the size of ostrich eggs suddenly lost their allure.

Looking at cells You can see some cells with your naked eye, such as an unfertilised ostrich egg which is a single cell.

Fly Whisk On display in the Museum is a fan-like object made of ostrich feather.

We're going to enjoy pouting in baby doll nighties and ostrich feather mules while we catalog them.

Octavia was the ostrich who just walked around looking beautiful and singing opera.

It is easy to play the ostrich and pretend that the disaster that is waiting to happen is a figment of imagination.

I like the idea of trying hard to include an ostrich into the Christmas story.

Passengers can join a tour of an ostrich farm or try riding an ostrich.

No unarmed man on earth could stand long before a furious male ostrich without being killed.

We need to engage with our culture and the issues it raises and faces, not bury our heads like the proverbial ostrich.

Showing a female ostrich incubating eggs on a nest consisting of a small circular mound of sand in a field.

She was depicted by Egyptian artists as a woman wearing an ostrich plume on her head.

That ostrich may be looking a bit threadbare after all these years, but I laughed so much I nearly soiled myself.

In comparison with all other vertebrates the number of neck-vertebrae of the birds is considerably increased; the lowest number, 14 to 15, is that of most Passeres and many other Coraciomorphae; the largest numbers, 20 or 21, are found in the ostrich, 23 in Cygnus olor and 25 in the black swan.

It is of importance for our understanding of the position of the Ratitae in the system, that the wing-skeleton of the ostrich and rhea is an exact repetition of that of typical flying birds; the bones are much more slender, and the muscles are considerably reduced in strength also to a lesser extent in numbers, but the total length of the wing of an ostrich or a rhea is actually and comparatively enormous.

There is no evidence, so far as we can see, of his having been aware of Merrem's views; but like that anatomist he without hesitation divided the class into, two great " coupes," to which he gave, however, no other names than " Oiseaux normaux " and" Oiseaux anomaux "-exactly corresponding with his predecessor's Carinatae and Ratitae-and, moreover, he had a great advantage in founding these groups, since he had discovered, apparently from his own investigations, that the mode of ossification in each was distinct; for hitherto the statement of there being five centres of ossification in every bird's sternum seems to have been accepted as a general truth, without contradiction, whereas in the ostrich and the rhea, at any rate, L'Herminier found that there were but two such primitive points, 3 and from analogy 1 Their value was, however, understood by Gloger, who in 1834, as will presently be seen, expressed his regret at not being able to use them.

It is a curious fact that even at a date so late as this, and by an investigator so well informed, doubt should still have existed whether Apteryx (see Kiwi) should be referred to the group containing the cassowary and the ostrich.

This fate has overtaken the elephant, giraffe, the buffalo, quagga, gnu, blesbok, gemsbok and ostrich.

Until towards the close of the 19th century Bechuanaland abounded in big game, and the Kalahari is still the home of the lion, leopard, hyena, jackal, elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, buffalo, antelope of many species, ostrich and even the giraffe.

The revenue derived from the export of ostrich feathers in 1899 was recorded at half a million.

Of reptiles there are the crocodile, confined to the Transkei rivers, several kinds of snakes, including the cobra di capello and puff adder, numerous lizards and various tortoises, including the leopard tortoise, the largest of the continental land forms. Of birds the ostrich may still be found wild in some regions.

Brisson, the name has since passed into general use, especially among English authors, for what their predecessors had called the American ostrich; but on the European continent the bird is commonly called Nandu,2 a word corrupted from a name it is said to have borne among the aboriginal inhabitants of Brazil, where the Portuguese settlers called it ema (see Emeu).

Harting, in his and De Mosenthal's Ostriches and Ostrich Farming, from which the woodcut here introduced is by permission copied, gives (pp. 67-72) some portentous statistics of the destruction of rheas for the sake of their feathers, which, he says, are known in the trade as "Vautour" to distinguish them from those of the African bird.

For those wishing to try something out of the ordinary there is also ostrich and water buffalo meat !

Finally, for an informal family get-together, match your new stretch denim dress jeans with a sweater accented with crystal rhinestones, bugle beads, or ostrich features.

Which is why in order for a cheater to be successful at cheating, he needs to be in a relationship with an ostrich (someone who is willing to bury her head in the sand).

The Dolce Bag is a prime example of Dolce & Gabbana's grace and ingenuity, a stark contrast to their flashier leopard print designs and ostrich feathers.

The Birkin bag can come in styles crafted out of ostrich skin or turquoise leather, with gleaming gold hardware comprising the delicate front clasp.

Materials range from lizard and calfskin to even ostrich.

These bags employ a plethora of high-quality materials including lambskin, printed canvas, calfskin, silk, and even exotic skins like python and ostrich.

Later 2.55 models ditched the incredible fabric look of days past in favor of quilted exotic leathers such as ostrich and lambskin.

The Patricia is available in two finishes; alligator and ostrich, with prices ranging from $4,250 for the former, and $2,250 for the latter.

They even have bags that are a combination of materials - for instance, they have a gold evening handbag with a giraffe print ruffle top and an ostrich print satchel with faux patent leather and metallic trim.

The Mellow World Ostrich Rolling Laptop Tote comes in several colors of ostrich leather, including an olive green, basic black and crimson.

They are crafted of fine materials like rich leather, fur, satin, nylon, microfiber, canvas and a variety of exotic skins, like crocodile, lizard and ostrich, to name a few.

The catch is, this slip-on is made of suede and ostrich.

They can have tips, chains, or have snake or ostrich print.

Cowboy boots are usually made of leather, but are sometimes made from more exotic materials like ostrich skin.

Ostrich leather is one of the most luxurious materials for watch bands, with a particularly soft and supple feel, and a distinctive "goose bumps" texture.

As well as the classic calfskin leather that is popular, other materials include lizard skin, crocodile and ostrich.

At this longstanding, family-owned market you'll find a good selection of wild game, including buffalo, venison, wild boar, ostrich, elk, antelope, and more.

Healthy dishes like the ostrich burger with a side of fresh carrots or the veggie burger with a side salad are good to try.

The town is a trading centre of some importance, and in the surrounding district are large sheep and ostrich farms. The neighbourhood is noted for its abundance of everlasting flowers.

Such a pygostyle is absent in Archaeopteryx, Hesperornis, Tinami and Ratitae, but it occurs individually in old specimens of the ostrich and the kiwi.

It is absent in the Ratitae, which from this feature have received their name, but considerable traces of a cartilaginous keel occur in the embryo of the ostrich, showing undeniably that the absence of a keel in the recent bird is not a primitive, fundamental feature.

Only in the ostrich this element is almost typically complete, although soon fused at either end with the coracoid.

Only in the ostrich the distal ends of the pubes meet, forming a daggershaped symphysis, which is curved forwards.

It had hitherto been generally believed that the mode of ossification in the fowl was that which obtained in all birds - the ostrich and its allies (as L'Herminier, we have seen, had already shown) excepted.

The important exports are gums and resin, fibre, hides, ivory, ostrich feathers, coffee, ghee, livestock, gold ingots from Abyssinia and mother-of-pearl; the shells being found along the coast from Zaila to beyond Berbera.

In the northern ports there is a similar but smaller trade and one also in ostrich feathers.

The range in size is a wide one - from the tiny humming-bird to the ema, rhea, or American ostrich.

The hartebeest appears now to be quite extinct; so also is the leucoryx, though formerly these two antelopes were found right up to the centre of Tunisia, as was also the ostrich, now entirely absent from the country.

It is an important trade centre, the chief articles of commerce being gum, ivory, cattle and ostrich feathers.

Characteristic are the giraffe, the chimpanzee and the ostrich.

The birds are more West African than the mammals, and include the grey parrot, all the genera of the splendidly-coloured turacoes, the unique " whale-headed stork," and the ostrich.

Among the places of interest in the vicinity is the large Florida ostrich farm.

It eats voraciously, and, like the ostrich, will swallow whatever comes in its way.

The chief wealth of the people consists in the gum obtained from the grey acacias, in oxen, camels and ostrich feathers.

Caymans, water-hogs (capinchos), several kinds of deer (Cervus paludosus the largest), ounces, opossums, armadillos, vampires, the American ostrich, the ibis, the jabiru, various species popularly called partridges, the pato real or royal duck, the Palamedea cornuta, parrots and parakeets, are among the more notable forms. Insect life is peculiarly abundant; the red stump-like ant-hills are a feature in every landscape, and bees used to be kept in all the mission villages.

Livingstone goes so far as to say, "nothing that I ever learned of the lion could lead me to attribute to it either the ferocious or noble character ascribed to it elsewhere," and he adds that its roar is not distinguishable from that of the ostrich.

The birds include the ostrich, marabout, vultures, kites, hawks, ground hornbill, great bustard, guinea fowl, partridge, lesser bustard, quail, snipe, duck, widgeon, teal, geese of various kinds, paraquets, doves, blue, bronze and green pigeons, and many others.

Salt and " potash " are imported from Absen in the Sahara; and ivory, ostrich feathers and leather goods are exported to Tripoli.

Gum, ivory, hides, and ostrich feathers from the Sudan, cotton and sugar from Upper Egypt, indigo and shawls from India and Persia, sheep and tobacco from Asiatic Turkey, and European manufactures, such as machinery, hardware, cutlery, glass, and cotton and woollen goods, are the more important articles.

It has the same moderately long, plump body, with a low dorsal crest, the continuation of the membrane bordering the strongly compressed tail; a large thick head with small eyes without lids and with a large pendent upper lip; two pairs of well-developed limbs, with free digits; and above all, as the most characteristic feature, three large appendages on each side of the back of the head, fringed with filaments which, in their fullest development, remind one of black ostrich feathers.

The other centres of population are Shingeti, Wadan and Ujeft, Shingeti being the chief commercial centre, whence caravans take to St Louis gold-dust, ostrich feathers and dates.

The fauna includes the lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo, zebra, kudu and many other kinds of antelope, wild pig, ostrich and crocodile.

In South America another large Ratite bird, the rhea, is called ostrich; it can be distinguished at once from the true ostrich by its possession of three toes.

Wool, mohair and ostrich feathers were the chief exports, the only mineral exported being copper (from the Namaqualand mines).

There is some ostrich farming.

Formerly there was a trade in ostrich feathers and ivory; but.