It only remains to be added, that there are at least two, perhaps three, other species of storks of very large dimensions--though not so large as this one--that for a long time have been confounded with it.

One of these is the _marabou_; which inhabits the tropical regions of Africa, and which also produces the plumes so much prized in the world of fashion.

The feathers of the African species, however, are far less beautiful and valuable than those from the tail of the adjutant; and it is these last that are really best known as _marabout feathers_, in consequence of the mistake made by Temminck, and propagated by the anatomist Cuvier.
Another great stork--differing both from the _argala_ of Asia and the _marabou_ of Africa--inhabits the Island of Sumatra.

It is known to the natives as the "Boorong Cambay;" while in the neighbouring Island of Java is found either a fourth species of these gigantic birds, or the same that belongs to Sumatra.
It is somewhat singular that such creatures should have remained so long unknown to the scientific world.

It is not much more than half a century since travellers began to describe them with any degree of exactness; and even at the present time their history and habits have received but very slight elucidation.