 | 1885 - 446 pages
...crocodile, when he gets out of the water on land, open his jaws, and then the trochilus enters his mouth and swallows the leeches. The crocodile is so well pleased with this service that he never hurts the little bird. • The outcome of enquiry into this subject instituted some time ago... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1885 - 440 pages
...crocodile, when he gets out of the water on land, open his jaws, and then the trochilus enters his mouth and swallows the leeches. The crocodile is so well pleased with this service that he never hurts the little bird. The outcome of enquiry into this subject instituted some time ago by... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...and then opens its jaws, which it does most commonly toward the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the leeches. The crocodile is so well... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...the water, its mouth is rilled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...and then opens its jaws, which it does most commonly toward the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the leeches. The crocodile is so well... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 pages
...other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receivesbenefit from that bird ; for when the crocodile gets out of...and then opens its jaws, which it does most commonly toward the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the 'leeches. The crocodile is so well... | |
 | Herodotus - 1899 - 626 pages
...crocodile gets out of the water on land, and then opens its jaws, which it does most commonly toward the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows...with this service that it never hurts the trochilus. With some of the Egyptians crocodiles are sacred ; with others not, but they treat them as enemies.... | |
 | Edmund Selous - 1905 - 382 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus because he receives benefit from...with this service that it never hurts the trochilus." 214 CHAPTER XVIII CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES AN UNFORTUNATE PECCARY — AN AMBUSH... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1913 - 990 pages
...Herodotus, after stating that all other birds and beasts avoid the crocodile, adds that he is at " peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...the water on land, and then opens its jaws, which it docs most commonly towards the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the leeches which... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1913 - 1028 pages
...Crocodile Bird. '!' >ry ahmit a bird which In its or; ri iriliad rot 1 other 1> is at "peace with the troch because he receives benefit from that bird. For, when...gets out of the water on land, and then opens its jawg, which it does most commonly towards the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the... | |
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It is blind in the water, but very quick-sighted on land ; and because it lives for the most part in the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit... 
