Balaclava (CRIMEA), BATTLE OF, OCT

25, 1854. The Ru ians took some redoubts, but were repulsed by the English heavy cavalry, after which, from a misunderstanding of Lord Raglan's order, occurred the gallant "Charge of the Six Hundred," 198 only of 670 returning. Here also, March 22, 1855, the Ru ians were repulsed with lo of 2,000, the allies losing 600. Balæniceps (SHOE-BILL). African bird related to the Herons, 5 ft. high, with stork-like legs, gray color and an enormous beak, broad and long, the upper mandible with a hook at the tip and ridge along the culmen, like the keel of a boat. There is one pair of powder-down patches. The furculum is strongly ankylosed to the keel of the sternum. They live in flocks on river banks, and nest on islets; feed on fish, water snakes, and carca es of dead animals. Balaguer, VICTOR, b. 1824. Spanish poet and dramatist, prof. at Barcelona 1855; historian of Catalonia 1878, and of the Troubadours 1878-80.