Adjutant

a large bird of the stork family, so called from its erect, military bearing. It is a familiar bird about the villages of India. It has a tremendous capacity for eating and acts as a public scavenger. It can swallow a cat with ease. It is about five feet high and spreads its wings about fourteen feet. The white "marabou" feathers of the milliner's store are plucked from the underside of its wings. See Buzzard; Pekin