Ornith. Better argeelah. [Hind. haṛgīlā.] The adjutant-bird (Ciconia Argala), a gigantic species of stork inhabiting India.
c. 1754. Ives, Voy. India (1773), 183. An extraordinary species of birds, called by the natives Argill or Hargill.
1798. Pennant, Hindostan, II. 156. The Argali or Adjutant.
1808. Orient. Field Sports, I. 99. That cumbrous bird the argeelah.
1838. Penny Cycl., XII. 170. The African Marabou is less in size than the Indian Argala.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 449. The Adjutant Stork or Argala of India.
