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  • There is an Australian bird that is also sometimes known as the jabiru, but it is taxonomically distinct: Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus.

    Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria 2011

  • There is an Australian bird that is also sometimes known as the jabiru, but it is taxonomically distinct: Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus.

    Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria 2011

  • The Sajnakhali area contains a wealth of water birds, noteworthy residents including Asian openbill stork Anastomus oscitans, black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, greater adjutant Leptoptilos dubius (E), white ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus, swamp francolin Francolinus gularis, white-collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris, black-capped kingfisher H. pileata and brown-winged kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera.

    Sundarbans National Park, India 2008

  • Black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus asiaticus), India (Photograph by Tony Coatsworth)

    Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests 2007

  • Mr. Windsor Earl makes much of this theory, but, unfortunately for it, the tree-kangaroos are chiefly found in the northern peninsula of New Guinea, which is entirely composed of hills and mountains with very little flat land, while the kangaroo of the low flat Aru Islands (Dorcopsis asiaticus) is a ground species.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Homo sapiens asiaticus was "severe, haughty, desirous."

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race 2001

  • Homo sapiens asiaticus was "severe, haughty, desirous."

    The Genetic Archaeology of Race 2001

  • Of a like character is the fact that the double _Ranunculus asiaticus_ loses its doubleness if the roots are planted in a poor soil.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • The call of the most widely-distributed of the Indian goatsuckers -- _Caprimulgus asiaticus_, the common Indian nightjar -- is like unto the sound made by

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • (_Caprimulgus asiaticus_) imitates the sound of a stone skimming over ice.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

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