Usage examples (10)

• W.P. P.rker, in his notes upon the osteology of the balæniceps, this bird recalls the boatbill, the heron, and the adjutant.
• Bonaparte regards it as intermediate between the pelican and the boatbill.
• If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus.
• The boatbill, says he, is merely a heron provided with a singular bill, which has but little analogy with that of the balæniceps, and not a true resemblance.