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The #Nerru, As A Bird
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W. H. I. Bleek
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
George Allen & Company, Ltd, London
1911
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The #Nerru, As A Bird: transformation, bird form, identity, metamorphosis, myth, otherness
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The #Nerru, As A Bird
The #nerru's bill is very short. The male #nerru is the one whose plumage resembles (that of) the ostrich; it is black like the male ostrich. The female #nerru is the one whose plumage is white like (that of) the female ostrich. Thus, they resemble the ostriches; because the male #nerru are black, the female #nerru white.
They eat the things which little birds usually eat, which they pick up on the ground.
They make grass nests on the ground, by the root of a bush.
When not breeding, they are found in large numbers.
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