Adjutant
in military language, in the United States army, an officer selected by the colonel, whose duties in respect an adjutant-general with an army. by the colonel, whose duties in respect to his regiment are similar to those of to the stork family. Its size is very great, its ordinary height in the erect ADJUTANT-GENERAL attitude being 5 feet. The beak is of enormous size and strength; the head is large, and the neck proportionally muscular. The adjutant is a native of the warmer parts of India, and is very useful in removing noxious animals and carrion, which it devours with great voracity. In its wild state it usually lives in companies, and chiefly frequents the mouths of rivers; it may be readily domesticated, but is very apt to display its voracity by purloining articles of food.
From this bird, and from an allied species in Senegal, the beautiful marabou feathers are obtained.