If so, it is interesting to note that the Gondwanan Sunbittern is most likely the closest living relative of the Kagu, and these two may also be reasonably close to the mesites, yet other " odd gruiforms " from the Southern Hemisphere, but do not seem to be close to the Gruiformes proper ( i. e. cranes, rails and allies.

The animals on display include Titi Monkeys, Two-toed Sloths, Sunbittern, Roseate Spoonbills, Red-footed Tortoises, Red-bellied Piranhas, Rainbow Boas, River Stingrays and various different species of Poison Dart Frog and Catfish.

Sunbittern, kagu, and mesites all group within Metaves but all the other lineages of " Gruiformes " group either with a collection of waterbirds or landbirds within Coronaves.

The Sunbittern ( Eurypyga helias ) is a bittern-like bird of tropical regions of the Americas, and the sole member of the family Eurypygidae ( sometimes spelled Eurypigidae ) and genus Eurypyga.

The wing display of the Sunbittern is shared with the Kagu ( Rhynochetos jubatus ) of New Caledonia.

The Sunbittern is usually placed in the Gruiformes, but this was always considered preliminary.

Molecular studies seem to confirm that the Kagu and Sunbittern are each other's closest living relatives.

Like some other birds, the Sunbittern has powder down.

The Sunbittern is a non-migrant bird that is normally found foraging on the ground and scratching for insects.

There is also a jungle-themed indoor flight room that allows the birds to fly freely, and houses Green-winged Macaws, Nicobar Pigeons, Eclectus Parrots, Sunbittern, Bali Myna and several others.

The purported gruiforms Kagu and Sunbittern ( and possibly the extinct adzebills too ) might also be not-too-distant relatives.

These latter taxa, remarkably, were all only tentatively placed in the Gruiformes, and are apparently all of Gondwanan origin ; like the mesites, the Kagu and Sunbittern are among the rather few birds possessing powder down.

On the other hand, should the adzebills be closer to the trumpeters, placement in the Gruiformes is likely to be correct even if the Kagu and Sunbittern are split off.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

The American people have indeed come a long way in the brief interval between 1930 and 1961.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Pohl and Kornbluth's ad men have long since thrown out appeals to reason and developed techniques of advertising which tie in with `` every basic trauma and neurosis in American life '', which work on the libido of consumers, which are linked to the `` great prime motivations of the human spirit ''.

American taxpayers have been impressed by the surpluses for a long, long time.

The Federal program eventually should have a favorable impact on Missouri's depressed areas, and in the long run that will benefit St. Louis as well.

Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

a person will never have spiritual poise and inner peace as long as the heart holds a grudge.

Evidently the war drum beating and hysteria so painstakingly being stirred up in the West have been planned long in advance.

Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

Some of the stumps are as much as three feet long, but most of them have been flattened by the pressure of the overlying sediments.

And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

`` I think I've fixed the pump so we won't have to worry about it for a long time '', he said.

What matter the others so long as I have my place in history ''.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

When it was finally pointed east, he said, `` You should never have come out here alone.

Although economic and personal circumstances vary widely among those now choosing apartments, Leo J. Pantas, vice president of a hardware manufacturing company, pointed out recently that many apartment seekers seem to have one characteristic in common: a desire for greater convenience and freedom from the problems involved in maintaining a house.

He pointed out to the young musicians that the National Gallery `` is the only museum in the country to have a full-time music director, Richard Bales.

Metamorphosis is gradual but by the age of about ten months they have developed a pointed head with sensory tentacles near the mouth and lost their eyes, lateral line systems and tails.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

There are no definite earlier bows ; previous pointed shafts are known, but may have been launched by spear-throwers rather than bows.

Also, the court pointed out that, while Canada has the power to amend the line of succession to the Canadian throne, the Statute of Westminster stipulates that the agreement of the governments of the fifteen other Commonwealth realms that share the Crown would first have to be sought if Canada wished to continue its relationship with these countries.

There have been no studies or records which show such a link, and it must be pointed out that Ninus and Trebeta were fictional figures, and not historically attested.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

Another problem is that Dutton's categories seek to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as André Malraux and others have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas ( including the idea " art " itself ) were non-existent.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

As already pointed out above, we have to distinguish between medium-resolution spectrometers that are used for LS AAS and high-resolution spectrometers that are designed for CS AAS.

He pointed out that implicit in the early Buddhist concept of dependent origination is the lack of any substantial being ( anatta ) underlying the participants in origination, so that they have no independent existence, a state identified as emptiness ( śūnyatā ), or emptiness of a nature or essence ( svabhāva ).

Unlike deer, which have branched antlers that they shed annually, bongos and other antelopes have pointed horns that they keep throughout their lifespan.

More recently scholars have pointed to the interchange of oral and written forms of the ballad.

On the other hand, many writers have pointed out how this battle was a humiliation for the Italian military.

Anthropologists have also pointed out that through culture people can adapt to their environment in non-genetic ways, so people living in different environments will often have different cultures.

Researchers have pointed out that the reproductive strategy of the surviving nautiloids, which rely upon few and larger eggs, played a role in outsurviving their ammonoid counterparts through the extinction event.

Other scientists have pointed out the same.

After the substituents of a stereocenter have been assigned their priorities, the molecule is so oriented in space that the group with the lowest priority is pointed away from the observer.

As theorists such as Ronald Coase have pointed out, all business organizations represent an attempt to avoid certain costs associated with doing business.