adjutant bird

British

noun

either of two large carrion-eating storks, Leptoptilos dubius or L. javanicus, which are closely related and similar to the marabou and occur in S and SE Asia

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Etymology

Origin of adjutant bird

so called for its supposedly military gait

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Moreover, where is his authority for representing an adjutant bird as an ordinary London fowl?

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