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Although this species ranges over most of tropical Africa (and 

 even South Africa) it is chiefly found in the eastern part of the con- 

 tinent. Gyldenstolpe " writes that in August, 1921, when traveling 

 down the Nile, he saw great numbers of this stork breeding at the 

 outskirts of the native villages. In the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum 

 at Stockholm there are only two specimens of Sphenorynchus from 

 western Africa, both from the lower Congo — Mukimbungu and Kin- 

 goyi. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology there is a male (im- 

 mature) from Sakbayeme, Cameroon, which indicates by its imma- 

 turity that the species not merely occurs in West Africa but 

 probably breeds there as well as in the eastern African countries. 

 This Cameroon specimen has bare skin of the cheeks, lores, etc., 

 entirely yellowish, not black as in adults ; and the upper parts very 

 dark blackish brown with very little purple sheen. The colors of 

 the bare skin mentioned in the previous sentence are the colors in 

 dried specimens. 



Blanford ^^ writes that this stork is occasionally seen in the high- 

 lands but not commonly. "About the shores of Annesly Bay it is 

 much more frequent, and I several times saw it in the Anseba Val- 

 ley. * * * I once saw five by some carcasses of mules at 

 Komayli, doubtless attracted by the insects." Mearns also noted 

 this bird about carcasses, but made no notes as to whether it was 

 feeding on them or not. 



EPHIPPIORHYNCHUS SENEGALENSIS (Shaw) 



Mycieria senegalensis Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 5, p. 35, pi. 33, 1800: 

 Senegal. 



Mearns did not collect any specimens of the saddle-bill stork, but 

 he recorded seeing a flock of 100 birds on Lake Rudolf, July 5-8, 

 and a single bird on July 10 a short distance southeast of the lake. 



Neumann ^^ observed this species around Lake Zwai, the Abaya 

 Lakes, and at Gelo. Erlanger recorded it but once during his jour- 

 ney, and it seems, therefore, that it is rather local in Ethiopia. But 

 it does occur there, a fact which Sclater *° overlooked. 



LEPTOPTILOS CRUMENIFERUS (Lesson) 

 Ciconia orumenifera Lesson, Trait§ d'Orn., p. 585, 1831 : Senegal. 



Specimens collected: 



One unsexed (head only) Lake Shala, Ethiopia, March 3, 1912. 



"" Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handlgr., 1924, pp. 294-295. 

 38 Geol. and Zool. Abyss., 1870, p. 436. 

 MJourn. f. Ornith., 1004, p. 338. 

 <« Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 34. 



